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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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military
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There is a subtle heritage that connects the military repression of homosexuality with negligent pollution.
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Internal dissension as much as military repression was to prove the rebels' undoing in 1699.
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But the military repression of 1989 tipped the scales.
political
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On June 1 the Interior Ministry announced that the government would pay compensation to victims of political repressions carried out since 1946.
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The philosophy of Americanism was being redefined. Political repression and racial discrimination were at a high point.
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After years of political repression , the education system has little credibility with those it is supposed to serve.
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Domination by political repression , the open domination of one class by another, is no longer necessary.
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Now, to political and economic repression in these areas was added cultural suppression.
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Yet the people targeted by them still live with economic stagnation, political repression , malnutrition and ecological crisis.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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During Stalin's repressions, countless people were sent to labor camps and starved to death.
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Religious ideas about sin made sexual repression commonplace.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And even among the scrupulously neutral, there were those who spoke against the inequality and repression which inspired the fighting.
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Are we that nostalgic for repression ?
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But tensions continued as victims of the repression took revenge against the cadres who had persecuted them.
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In spite of consistent repression , they produced five children.
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Indeed the repression of anger can be positively harmful.
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She had not even attracted any positive repression , nor been significant enough to affect her husband's career.
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The prison system became, by default, a major enforcer of repression .