Repressive
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It is about a lawyer named Newland Archer (played expertly by Daniel Day-Lewis) who yearns to break free of the rigid,
repressive
world of upper-class New York in the 1870's.
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Individuals have managed to overcome the
repressive
restrictions in those regimes by recording their environment and telling their own stories on the internet.
But if you're a
repressive
government searching for political enemies, you might instead remove them, eliminate them, disrupt their social group, and those who remain behind lose social cohesion and organization.
To do so, she had to elude every big institution in her life:
repressive
governments, occupying armies and even armed border patrols.
Most of the globe experiences the state as repressive, as an organization that is concerned about denial of rights, about denial of justice, rather than provision of it.
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