adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an oppressive/repressive regime (= powerful, cruel, and unfair )
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That country was held fast in the grip of an oppressive regime.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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A second section then analyses the corresponding drift towards a more repressive style of policing in this country.
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After six years in power, Park was becoming more repressive and had his sights set on long-term rule.
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Labour implemented a more repressive policy on the ground than Likud while pretending to greater moderation in the international domain.
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He became increasingly more repressive , despite his pronouncements about creating a new society, free of corruption and graft.
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However, when a country reverts to more repressive politics, government policies usually demobilize many of the new foot soldiers.
■ NOUN
measure
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He immediately began harsh repressive measures and many Madeirans were deported to the Azores and some to the Cape Verde.
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The repressive measures adopted in the South after the Emancipation Proclamation were rapidly dissipated.
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When faced with locally repressive measures , some Huaraz women have threatened to call a marketers' strike.
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Its rejection led to a series of industrial strikes, demonstrations, and repressive measures by the Government.
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It is feared that this may prove the beginning of further repressive measures .
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By condemning the disorderly symptoms of social conflict and neglecting its causes, the media implicitly endorse further repressive measures .
regime
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When we live with war, under a repressive regime we can not close our eyes any more.
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Both the Sandinistas and Frelimo came to power after a liberation struggle against highly repressive regimes .
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In the face of repressive regimes , the peasantry have shown a capacity and willingness to organise and mobilise.
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There is a new insistence on the illegitimacy of debts incurred by military dictatorships and other repressive regimes .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The country has repressive laws and jails full of political prisoners.
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The customs were exceedingly repressive toward women.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both the Sandinistas and Frelimo came to power after a liberation struggle against highly repressive regimes.
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It is feared that this may prove the beginning of further repressive measures.
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It thereby assists the maintenance of domestic capitalist interests and elaborates its repressive apparatuses.
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Just as thirty years before, here again were feminist divisions over using the repressive state to enforce women's demands.
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The guaranteed absence of external intervention left the regime a free hand to continue its repressive domestic policies.
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This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority.
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When we live with war, under a repressive regime we can not close our eyes any more.