| People are fed up with regimes that are repressive and have failed to deliver prosperity. |
| The Tokugawa brought peace and stability to the country, but at the costs of a repressive political style. |
| Reprehensible, too, were the succession of Cold War alliances with repressive but anti-Soviet regimes. |
| The following films deal with rebellion against arbitrary or repressive authority. |
| In places like Burma, it takes the form of virtual forced labor under a brutally repressive military dictatorship. |
| Following a visit to San Salvador in 1973 she wrote Salvador, describing the repressive political regime. |
