| This was because of its repressiveness, which weakened its apparatus and opened up the need for public participation. |
| The Virgin Mary could be tolerated for her merciful, loving, consolatory virtues if only one didn't at the same time have to buy into her passivity and sexual repressiveness. |
| Morocco could probably achieve the same result with less pain, and Tunisians, who mostly appear baffled by their government's repressiveness, are certainly ready for greater freedom. |
| The casual repressiveness of these images, the one frightening, the other poignant, itself seems sewn into the very fabric of Afghani society. |
| Talking about repression in a manner that would seem to condemn it may actually enhance a culture's repressiveness. |
| Manned largely by PUK defectors and founded only in 2009, it has benefited from widespread anger at the older parties' alleged corruption, nepotism and repressiveness. |
