We have made the human right to reproduce unchallengeable: to do so is either to be eugenicist or – as with China's one-child policy – repressively authoritarian. |
Next to economic relationships of dependence, ways of life and norms considered as hegemonic can also act repressively against those people who do not want to follow these ideas. |
Unlike most Americans, having lived in the Soviet Union, I have some experiences of a society where a national ID system was used relatively repressively. |
You've written that we're willing to trade with them but we don't draw a line when they obviate civil liberties, when they continue to act repressively. |
At the ballet's close they follow Eva, her charisma intact, as she is banished from this unforgiving, repressively puritanical sect. |
Apparent devolution while real power is retained at the centre and used repressively may even increase the disharmony of Ethiopia's nationalities. |