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Sentence Examples And, again with the exception of Basle, the urban patriciates showed unexpected vigour in moving to repress the rebels. I think he finished repressing the Irish and was moving on to repress the Scots. It also means having to repress the vision of oneself staring back that appears in the mirrored surface of the silver plate. As the plot unfolds, Sonya finds that she has to repress herself in order to fit into mainstream American culture and attain her goals. It's an odd paradox that as Alex comes to terms with these events from his past, he struggles to ignore and repress them. As the contagion of revolutionary ideas spread to Italy, every government, princely or republican, strove to repress it. Everything in such an environment, it goes without saying, tends to repress the creative and to stimulate the competitive impulses. Sometimes we repress our good humour, because we are afraid that others will think we are frivolous or foolish. The ruling class wants to repress artistic freedom of self-expression, as a part of the broader attack on the democratic rights of the people. Censorship was reformed, to repress both pacifists and defeatists for military reasons, but to restore freedoms otherwise. Otherwise, why else would the Deity feel the need to impose laws that repress human nature? Numerous genes act to remodel and repress chromatin in heterochromatin and around euchromatic genes during development. In the process, boys learn to repress emotion and inhibit the expression of personal feelings. The deal with the Iranian government will give them a free hand to repress activists and keep political prisoners behind bars. Once the violation has been established, the Parties to the conflict shall put an end to it and shall repress it with the least possible delay. There are many like him who repress and oppress and incinerate, then smile for the camera, enjoying the limelight. People were shocked by the determination of the Vietnamese authorities and the police in trying to repress patriots, to save face for Beijing. She knew, of course, that the place was a lunatic asylum, but I could see that she was unable to repress a shudder when we entered. It is their job to lobby politicians and persuade them to suppress, depress, repress, oppress, or do what ever it takes to maintain a grip on the price of silver. To become American women, as Schreier phrases it, they had to repress much of what made them ethnically, individually, and hence naturally different. Show More Sentences McWilliam examines how the French nation attempted to narrate, negotiate, memorialize, elide or repress its own past and the real conditions of its present. Being in a football stadium means you can sing, shout, jeer, swear and leap aroundworking off feelings you repress elsewhere. As Wheeler and Kahn have noted, this shared impulse gestures to a primal desire to repress the mother's crucial role as a powerful agent in the birth of the male self. Mill's answer was that the state should repress a man's acts only if they harm others. These are the causes which must be combated through development cooperation, rather than using it to repress their effects. The government is taking strict measures to prevent and repress this scourge in the regions currently afflicted. But history often has a force and a power that are very difficult and even dangerous to repress. It will make a difference to those people on the frontlines trying to repress torture. In totalitarian regimes, the oppressors repress and suppress freedom of thought. There he has shown himself clumsy and weak, unable to defeat by act of will the prejudices that repress him. The Iraqi could barely repress his glee, and did a kind of jig as he walked across the room. It is another principle that laws, made to prevent or repress the wickedness of men, must display a certain frankness, a certain candour. As we see it, the revolution needs organisms to oversee it and to repress, in an organized sense, hostile sectors. Ghislain the introvert volubly declares his nascent love, powerless to repress the new feeling that has come over him. In his youth he has suffered blackouts that repress chilling memories of childhood abuse, death and the absence of his mentally unbalanced father. In contrast, I will argue, such writers and their readers may repress women but they maintain homosocial culture by exchanging misogynistic words about them. In fact, if drug reformers gain enough political power to threaten the drug-war cabal, an alliance between the two to repress youths is inevitable. And they are very happy to dismiss all their dissidents as terrorists, in order to be able to repress them with impunity. We see a dictator using force to repress and persecute his opponents. The doctrine did not necessarily repress the use of the Ukrainian language, but it required that writers follow a certain style in their works. Show More Sentences Of course Saddam Hussein tended to repress or kill most of his opponents. It is also leading a naval operation, EU NAVFOR Atalanta, to provide protection for World Food Programme aid convoys and to help prevent and repress acts of piracy and armed robbery along the country's coast. It is our duty to lay down, as we have tried to do, common measures to prevent and repress hooliganism, in cooperation with the football associations, UEFA and police forces, for the safety of all citizens. Furthermore, the addition of streaming data has exacerbated the longtail effect on the top 40, since digital retailers have no shelf-space issues or bargain bin, and never have to delete or repress music. Help the person not to repress these emotions when they rise. That an illegal military regime can so violently repress the aspirations of the Burmese people for democracy and peace has generated outrage around the world. If citizens become less afraid and are willing to stand up then the oppressive tactics of the regime will no longer be effective because one cannot repress people who are unafraid of repression. Both are nominally communist regimes that repress their people. As I look out at all of you assembled here tonight, I find it difficult to repress a sort of longing for what might have been if I had stayed on as a journalist. Over the years, including during Tunisia's last presidential and legislative elections in October 2009, the authorities used these draconian laws to repress political opposition and harass independent civil society. A large number of provisions concerning anti-State activities give rise to concern because of their excessively broad scope and the way that the regime might use such provisions to repress any form of political dissent. Provisions of Law 88 on the Protection of National Independence and the Economy of Cuba have also been used to repress criticism and punish dissidents who work with foreign media. The operation's second objective is to protect civilian shipping transiting the trade routes in that area, to repress hostage-taking and ransom extortion and to enforce international law. The opposition used this resource to mobilise public opinion against the monarchy, which in turn tried to repress the underground literature. Communist governments often attempted to repress the practice immediately after obtaining power, although it always persisted. Subsequently, Philip II sent the Duke of Alba to the Provinces to repress the revolt. Romola's heart swelled again, so that she was forced to break off. But the need she felt to disburden her mind to Tito urged her to repress the rising anguish. The first attempt to repress the movies was a humdinger by any standards. Available data imply that ToxT needs to dimerize in order to activate genes, but it can bind as a monomer to repress and, possibly, even activate other genes. When will he appear from the swamp and swallow up her nakedness hungrily, sharp-set, to rid the world of the dirt that we sweep under the carpet to repress. Show More Sentences Formerly a Pharisee, Paul confesses what he did as one of those learned elite, using intellectual prowess to co-opt holy law to coerce and repress. The unconscious connection between mother and daughter reveals an intellectual complexify that women, black and white, have felt compelled to repress. Examples from Classical Literature I could not repress some homage to the sagacity of this unwitnessed confession. Though the expression of despair on the duke's face was truly awful, the bonesetter could not repress a smile. The Orchian and other sumptuary laws fail to repress the luxury of the Romans. She was quite unable to repress a vulgar interest in the menials that served her. Manlius could not repress a smile at the singular situation of the panegyrist. Struggling to repress my tears, I said no more, but passed out, cut to the heart. The Pardoner was so ready to tell some 'mirth or japes' that the more decent folks in the company try to repress him. However, not even Mawson's stoniness could quite repress all her feeling of wonder-growing joy. At the sight of it Frank could not repress an exclamation of astonishment. She was unable to repress a glance of admiration at me as she moved off. At this command the mountain of populace thinned so suddenly that D'Artagnan could not repress a burst of Homeric laughter. Grisell could not repress a dissentient murmur of indignation. Damon standing in a little clearing, with upraised club, Tom could not repress a laugh. The election was a rare moment where the mullahs were unable to repress dissent. Joubert, with eighteen thousand men, was left to repress the Tyrol. Astok could scarce repress a grin at the clever manner in which he had outwitted the noble and disposed of him at the same time. Cornelius put his hand on his heart, to repress as it were its violent palpitation, and listened. Yellow Handkerchief sat down in the bottom alongside of me, and I could feel him straining to repress his raspy, hacking cough. He needed all his self-control to repress a yowl of pain and dismay. This hint was enough to repress talking, though, of course, it did not disturb the credit of the story in the least. Show More Sentences The first chapter of Gothic Masculinity shows us how the Hegelian narrative of subjectivity appropriates the gothic-hysterical models that it seeks to repress and deny. Louisiana lacked the coherent centralized police force to repress banditry and brigandage in the countryside that Texas and most other states had. They all had a listless and dreary air of waiting somebody's pleasure, and the most talkative of the ladies had to speak quite rigidly to repress a yawn. A heavy sigh, which she tried vainly to repress, burst from her lips. Find more words! 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