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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.
Traditional authority and morality can be quite repressive and restrictive to those at the bottom, to women, to people who don't fit in.
I thought the typeface Helvetica was the cleanest, most boring, most fascistic, really repressive typeface, and I hated everything that was designed in Helvetica.
We meet women from all over the world whose own governments refuse to protect them from brutal domestic violence or repressive social norms.
In fact, some of them actually survived the Internet challenge, and some got even more repressive.
I grew up under repressive military governments that devalued education, so that sometimes, my parents were not paid their salaries.
In condemning homosexuality, the film industry has reflected only what the repressive society of its day espoused as an ideology.
While initially the revolution promised freedom, at this point the small committee running the country is extremely repressive and is a dictatorship.
Some have mentioned that the Polish director, Wajda, also intended this to be a criticism of his own nation--which, at the time, was Soviet-dominated and very repressive as well.
It tells the story of Riff Randell, adorably played by P.J. Soles, and the battle that she and her fellow students at Vince Lombardi High wage against their new repressive principal, Miss Togar.
A true story about a true revolution, 25 of April ; a revolution against a repressive regime of 41 years, that was imposing a colonial war on it's military's, for maintaining an empire (Angola, Mozambique, Guine-Bissau, Cabo Verde, S. Tomé e Principe; the first and the last of the great colonial empire's of Europe) of 600 years, since it's beginning in the conquest of Ceuta in 1415; a revolution by the army for the people, and for a democratic Portugal; the most's surprising fact in this revolution is that it were no people killed in it (except those that died in the hand's of PIDE, the political police of the State, during a brutal gunfire against an unarmed crowd protesting in front of it's headquarters in the day of the revolution, in 25 of April 1974, has it show's on the film).And has all revolutions it has it's heroes, one them of was Captain Salgueiro Maia, a returned soldier from the war, whose convictions along with the rest of the army, was that they were fighting (since 1961) a hopeless war, and that sometimes a soldier has to disobey it's country.
However, knowing that this film was made in the repressive Czechoslovakia during the Soviet-domination era, the more I watched the film, the more I realized just how subversive this innocent looking little film was.
I thought this film did a fine job of portraying the ugliness of the US government in the repressive McCarthy era.
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.
The story is a bout a young woman (Sammi Davis) who wants to live her life but she has to do it during the repressive Victorian age of England.
Ultimately, it is a plea to stop the torture and murder of civilians who suffer under repressive political regimes.
Anna is forced to give up the home she loves and the nanny she adores when her father quits his job in order to dedicate himself full time to fighting for the proletariat against the repressive corporate powers of the world.
Storytelling is an indictment of repressive suburbia, but it is also an indictment of the postmodern, ironic, and politically correct intellectuals, and how both parts of society control and restrict people from being truly who they are.
Its ideas about women seem repressive to us now, but given the attitudes of the time, it was actually fairly advanced.
The regime is sexually repressive yet one finds sexual tension relieved at every turn.
Central America saw some of the most brutal and repressive civil wars and regimes.
Though it is not often the case that severely repressive regimes go of their own volition or through a negotiated transfer of power, it does happen.
This has bred corrupt and repressive governments and armed conflict.
It started in Tunisia, where the revolution swept President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s repressive regime out of power.
It then spread to Egypt and Libya, ending Hosni Mubarak’s and Muammar el-Qaddafi’s even more repressive and corrupt regimes.
The protesters in Tahrir Square perceived the cause of Egypt’s poverty in its non-responsive, repressive political system, its corrupt government, and the general lack of equality of opportunity in every sphere of their lives.
Many previous revolutions have deposed one set of corrupt rulers only to bring in a new bunch who are equally corrupt, vicious, and repressive.
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