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Malarial mosquitoes and repressive feudalism restrained the island’s development until the 19th century.
This is due largely to its repressive state security apparatus , which Saddam modeled on the Soviet KGB and East German Stasi in the '70s.
The other group consists of members of the Swi/Snf complex required to counter the repressive effects of chromatin by remodeling nucleosomes in an ATP-dependent manner (for review see [ 20].
rebel--someone who could have justified his thieving on all sorts of grounds, from contempt for the repressive, hypocritical police force to contempt for the repressive, hypocritical church.
While we may deplore that sex has become the dominating factor in many young people's lives, the goal should be to expand and emphasize the nonsexual means of personal expression ("liberation") available to them, not to return to the repressive and contaminating moral hypocrisies of a previous age.