But challenges remain: aside from the legacy of repressive laws, newspapers are heavily taxed and many journalists are untrained.

But rights advocates say that repressive laws are still in place.

However, by the end of the 1820s, many repressive laws were repealed.

The need of the authorities to get public support for repressive legislation, instigated by someone duped into causing an explosion.

Parliament began to enact repressive legislation in order to silence the reformers.

The repressive legislation was repeatedly revised.

His underlying conservatism led him to support politically and socially repressive legislation, and resulted in criticism that he was ignoring injustices at home while campaigning for the enslaved abroad.

Lashes on the back was the most common repressive measure.

But, embassies transmitting information by their own radios say repressive measures now in force bear the hallmarks of having been ordered by the general.

The toughest repressive measures had to be applied.

He caused most of the nationalist leadership to be imprisoned for much of the war, and endorsed ruthless repressive measures in response to strikes, demonstrations and acts of sabotage.

They then, in a process of cognitive dissonance, often go on to support a leader's repressive measures or abrasive language, even when his popularity dips.

We find we are in a repressive society in which individuals are coerced into 'targeting' foes of western freedom.

But the slogans on the placards quickly reveal this remains a deeply repressive society.

He saw the swimsuit as a protest against repressive society.

Because thought can not be separate from the modes of its expression, distortions of language in a politically repressive society effect psychological damages as well.

Repressive societies can change the consequences of speaking, but they do not govern our souls.