repression


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Synonyms for repression

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Synonyms for repression

sudden punitive action

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Words related to repression

a state of forcible subjugation

(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious

the act of repressing

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Stir yourself.' His neck was so twisted that the knotted ends of his white cravat usually dangled under one ear; his natural acerbity and energy, always contending with a second nature of habitual repression, gave his features a swollen and suffused look; and altogether, he had a weird appearance of having hanged himself at one time or other, and of having gone about ever since, halter and all, exactly as some timely hand had cut him down.
He could hardly get the words out, even then and there, so fierce did he grow (though keeping himself down with infinite pains of repression), when the careless and contemptuous bearing of Eugene Wrayburn rose before his mind.
And then Schliemann went on to outline some of the wastes of competition: the losses of industrial warfare; the ceaseless worry and friction; the vices--such as drink, for instance, the use of which had nearly doubled in twenty years, as a consequence of the intensification of the economic struggle; the idle and unproductive members of the community, the frivolous rich and the pauperized poor; the law and the whole machinery of repression; the wastes of social ostentation, the milliners and tailors, the hairdressers, dancing masters, chefs and lackeys.
The warmth of heart which Martin ridiculed and resented, intensified by its very repression, bubbled out to others in cheery helpfulness, and blessed her quick tears.
Everything seems quiet now, but those people are preparing some move of general repression. That's of course.
The aggrieved resistance leader continued, 'Even peaceful candle light protests against Human Rights abuses a threat to the mighty rulers whose standard response is repression, repression and still more repression!'
Since then repression has not stopped: seven political leaders exiled in three different countries and nine political and civil leaders imprisoned.
(3) These topics have overshadowed the small but growing research on what political scientists sometimes call "empowerment rights." (4) Empowerment rights prohibit nonviolent government repression such as censorship and surveillance, (5) as well as suppression of assembly and association, electoral, and religious rights.
Baghdad, Iraq (NINA) - Barham Saleh, head of Democracy and Justice Coalition stressed the need to end the injustice, repression and monopoly in the Kurdistan region, through the participation of citizens and voters in the Iraqi elections.
- 2 - Wikimedia commons WASHINGTON - 5 January 2018: The US Department of the Treasury imposed Friday sanctions on four Venezuelan government officials over links to corruption and repression in Venezuela.
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) paraded on Monday an effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte leading a blood-spattered military tank featuring the effigies of Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez, and of Uncle Sam, a representation of 'political and economic repression' under the administration.
In Egypt, protest and repression spark off from one another.