repressiveness

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I missed a more critical reflection on 'development ' as a concept, and material on the repressive effects of religion (or politics).
Just as the repressive regime discouraged labour protest, so this protest tended to provoke further repression.
The mass uprooting of the population further fostered discontent and political activism among them, leading the authorities to adopt an even more repressive policy.
Both of these scenarios are in contrast to the chromatin environment of presenescent normal cells, in which permissive and repressive modifications are at a minimum.
Here we report the characterization of a repressive effect associated with a wild-type chromosome with a number of novel attributes.
Why should repressive activity be correlated with temperature ?
Rank-and-®le of®cers had their own input into the repressive process.
In sum, most historians looked down on repressive and marginal poor relief systems.
All the same one wonders how exactly poor relief could be both repressive and unimportant.
As opposition to his autarchic style mounted in the following months, the dictator employed increasingly repressive measures to subjugate dissenting voices.
Protest gained impetus in response to the repressive rules or intransigence of the regime.
Besides, privatisation was more likely where the political regime was more repressive.
In countries with repressive governments, feelings of discontentment among citizens may encourage actions that contribute to greater liberalization of the political and economic process.
They did protect the gas station, for example, and some other specific stores with the zeal that the repressive forces reserved for big chain supermarkets.
Moreover, the same transmitter may have activating as well as repressive functions.
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