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repress sentence examples

  • Repress dissent and debate.
  • Repressed by a homophobic society.
  • Repressed unconscious.
  • Saddam hussein is a vicious dictator who was brutally repressed the iraqi people.
  • Repressed for some 40 years.
  • Repressing hmlh1 gene transcription.
  • Any attempt to organize was brutally and violently repressed.
  • Repress a revolt always posed a risk of excess.
  • He claimed of the brothers: " they were very sexually repressed.
  • Repressing a tendency toward men.
  • The man in was quiet, hard working, and at that time, emotionally repressed.
  • Do you think men feel they must keep their emotions repressed?
  • Brazilâs workers party government has been tainted by corruption allegations, and has heavily repressed movements like the sem terra, of landless peasants.
  • Repressing all opposition and running a tame national media.
  • At independence, the winners assured the reins of political power, while the losers were often repressed, imprisoned or silenced.

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