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What does repressively mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a repressive manner.
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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.
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.
No one will respect you if you signal reform but act repressively, she advises Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak.
At the ballet's close they follow Eva, her charisma intact, as she is banished from this unforgiving, repressively puritanical sect.
She said police were closely watching the security situation in Macedonia and were acting preventively as well as repressively.
Once again, the government under Soeharto regime face this movement repressively by military approach.

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