Repressing

This is similar to the practice of China government in repressing human rights activist Tan Zuoren, who disclosed the bean dreg school building construction problem in the Sichuan earthquake, with the charge of inciting sedition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Methinks it had been rather our parts to stick together in repressing these violent and unlawful intrusions and injuries dayly offered to our common mother, the holy Church of Christ, than by any manner of persuasions to help or set forward the same. ❋ John (2009)

Austen thereby achieves the effect of normalizing heterosexual desire and pathologizing sexual repression while also expressing what must have been her poor opinion of the success such moral stories had in repressing women's sexuality or their desires. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Regardless of the truth, the winner is the side who is successful in repressing the other. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Don Porfirio matched ambition in repressing rebellion with enthusiasm for culture. ❋ Unknown (2000)

In the destruction of these two young priests by the infliction of an awful judgment, the wisdom of God observed the same course, in repressing the first instance of contempt for sacred things, as he did at the commencement of the Christian dispensation (Ac 5: 1-11). ❋ Unknown (1871)

He is a man of a mild disposition, respected by the chiefs of the neighbouring principalities; and although active in repressing to the best of his ability the system of kidnapping and traffic in slaves, practised by the people of his tribe, has maintained a degree of influence over them amounting to veneration. ❋ Unknown (1856)

Yet the power of the pope has often been of great service in repressing the excesses of sovereigns, and in softening manners. — ❋ Unknown (1206)

To think otherwise about death for example, is to think that "repressing" death somehow "eliminates" death. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fernando Mazanga accused the government of "repressing" the demonstrators. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The academics labeled Israel as a "colonial apartheid state, more insidious than South Africa," called for the "removal of this regime," and depicted Israeli universities as "repressing" academic freedom. ❋ GayandRight (2005)

Then you have the unfocused ANSWER crowd, protesting everything under the rainbow because anyone who calls for focus is "repressing" people. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Is Angelina Jolie "repressing" Shiloh by letting her dress like a boy? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The opposition Democratic Unity coalition blames the government for "repressing" the ❋ Unknown (2010)

The extent to which he is (presented as) repressing his fury at his mother is, I'd argue, in direct proportion to the extent to which he knows he wants to slay her. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

He accused Mr. Assad of "blaming outsiders while seeking Iranian assistance" in repressing Syria's citizens. ❋ Unknown (2011)