The existence of a general Arab appetite for democracy does not mean that the alternative to a repressive, authoritarian regime is bound in every case to be a liberal democracy.
The story deftly navigates the intricacies of creative life in a repressive society, and Ghobadi brilliantly captures the vibrant city with the skill of a great neorealist.
Mr Kagame's critics accuse him of leading a repressive regime, which jails opponents and cracks down on the media.
He also highlighted his background as the son of immigrants and the story of his parents seeking refuge in the United States to escape a repressive dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.
Until recently, the country adopted a more repressive approach to drug use, with laws that penalised the possession and consumption of drugs.
Lula, who during the Brazilian dictatorship of the 1970's, wished that the international community would speak against it, showed little sensitivity towards the people of Iran who courageously confronted a highly repressive theocracy.
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Rashly, she breaks off her engagement to a solid but repressive financier, scandalising her parents and exiling herself to France.
The first is a rigid, even repressive, intolerance of incitement to violence.
Last year 3, 000 Eritreans are thought to have fled their repressive and impoverished country in search of a better life.
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Sahira (Ruth Osuna), an Egyptian-American medical student in California, is constrained by her tyrannical father, Mohammed (Wadie Andrawis), to practice a faith that she does not share and to follow repressive social codes that she rejects.
Chancellor Angela Merkel boosted Germany's already repressive VAT almost 20%--the biggest tax increase in German postwar history--as a means of balancing the budget.
Ned Kelly, a Robin-Hood-like folk hero, represented the struggle between poor rural Irish Australians and the repressive British ruling class during and after transportation.
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