| Initially he did indeed offer some respite from the repressiveness of the two preceding popes. |
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| This was because of its repressiveness, which weakened its apparatus and opened up the need for public participation. |
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| The casual repressiveness of these images, the one frightening, the other poignant, itself seems sewn into the very fabric of Afghani society. |
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| The arrival of the work teams was greeted at first with joy, but their repressiveness soon led to a change. |
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| The Virgin Mary could be tolerated for her merciful, loving, consolatory virtues if only one didn't at the same time have to buy into her passivity and sexual repressiveness. |
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| The repressiveness of the Burmese junta is overlaid with mysticism that can often border on the bizarre. |
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| The perception is growing that the old type of military or Kemalist authoritarianism is being replaced by a more civilian type of repressiveness. |
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| Talking about repression in a manner that would seem to condemn it may actually enhance a culture's repressiveness. |
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| Manned largely by PUK defectors and founded only in 2009, it has benefited from widespread anger at the older parties' alleged corruption, nepotism and repressiveness. |
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| But the repressiveness of its laws, its total absence of democracy, its opaqueness, the corruption and venality of some of its myriad princes, are suddenly seen anew. |
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| Morocco could probably achieve the same result with less pain, and Tunisians, who mostly appear baffled by their government's repressiveness, are certainly ready for greater freedom. |
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| A female bystander and one policeman were also killed. The repressiveness of Syria's regime underlined by this week's trial of the country's leading human-rights activist, Aktham Naisse tends to incubate conspiracy theories. |
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| Hugo Cancio, who left the island in the Mariel boatlift of 1980, owns a website and magazine, OnCuba, written mostly by Cubans, which plays down repressiveness and plays up commerce and culture. |
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| The Bloc Quebecois has often showed how concerned it was about the situation in Kosovo by condemning the repressiveness, brutality and inhuman behaviour of the Serb security forces. |
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| That never has and never will justify repressiveness, but it does recognize that in many societies political legitimacy is a function of performance not just process. |
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