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"TRB" faults Clinton's moral reasoning in apologizing for American assistance to repressive Guatemalan regimes.
In Dancing at Lughnasa (it's pronounced LOO-nassa), the sisters reside in a sterile and repressive Ireland--but one in which the pagan past continues to bubble up, most visibly in the harvest feast of Lughnasa, when peasants take to the hills to build fires, drink to even greater excess than usual, and dance orgiastically.
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].
Democracy nonexistent: no independent judiciary; repressive state security apparatus; state-controlled media.)
Is homophobia innate or a repressive cultural construct?