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Example sentences for: repressive

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Backward economic policies and repressive political regimes slip into societies that are without hope, where ambition and passions have no constructive outlet.
Centuries of almost constant repressive foreign rule followed, with the Vandals being succeeded by the Byzantines, Saracens, and Moors.
Although rule began in repressive fashion, gradually, by the mid-1960s, severe ideological doctrines were being relaxed.
Also, an essayist deplores his own investments in global mutual funds: His money helps repressive governments and exploitative foreign companies (But you can't beat the profits, he admits).
These charges found a ready audience among millions of Arabs and Muslims angry at the United States because of issues ranging from Iraq to Palestine to America's support for their countries' repressive rulers.