Meanings of more repressive in English

For protest policing under neoliberalism does not simply entail more repressive behaviour.

In Africa's more repressive states, the risk of arrest and mistreatment is high.

He too more repressive measures around the time of the fall of Vietnam.

It is a more repressive society, a more closed society.

But rights groups say the country is now more repressive than at any time before.

Furthermore, Putin's regime was becoming more and more repressive.

The world's most populous nation has become notably more repressive since the rise of President Xi Jinping.

Although China promised no big changes in Hong Kong for 50 years, already policies are changing and becoming more repressive.

In authoritarian countries that have tighter, more repressive surveillance of the internet, the need for perfect forward secrecy is even greater.

The 1979 revolutionary government became more repressive as a result of internal divisions and external pressures to redirect or overthrow it.

Initially lauded as an icon of African liberation, his rule became steadily more repressive as he clamped down on political opponents.

As Mugabe became more repressive of dissent, Tsvangirai's star rose among the disaffected of Zimbabwe and as a darling of the west.

There were revolutions that sprang theoretically from the roots of the common folk, but that succeeded only in installing yet more repressive regimes.

In some cases, some of the more repressive regimes in Eastern Europe appeared to invoke certain articles of the Declaration in order to justify oppression.

China's lurch back towards a more repressive brand of authoritarianism since Xi Jinping became leader in 2012 has alarmed members of Hong Kong's pro-democracy community.