repressions in English

noun
1
the action of subduing someone or something by force.
Irish readers will quickly spot the familiar pattern of failed uprising followed by brutal repression .
synonyms:suppressionquashingsubduingcrushingstamping outoppressionsubjugationsuppressiontyrannydespotismauthoritarianism
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1. Without harassment, without secret police, faceless bureaucrats, permits and papers, forms, prohibitions, repressions.

2. Question: The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, is being accused of repressions against thousands of his own people.

3. Behind the scenes, you'll find Andropov's shadow involved in multiple repressions and interventions from Hungary to Czechoslovakia to Georgia as …

4. Today it signifies liberation from material insecurity and from the Coercions and repressions that prevent multitudes from the participation in the vast cultural resources that are at hand.