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Ukraine's ruling elite is brutally suppressing opposition, limiting freedom of speech, and curtailing economic liberty.
And when immigrants aren’t sponging off the taxpayers, they’re suppressing their wages and taking their jobs.
The UN’s Human Rights Council would not have dared to put Russia in the dock for razing Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, or China for brutally suppressing the people of Tibet and the Muslim Uighur minority.
For many years, these regimes – whether the Shia of Iran or the Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia – succeeded in suppressing pluralism and individuality.
Russia's power structures, like those of America, must now be readied to conduct a very long struggle, entirely different from the old Soviet KGB way of suppressing dissent.
Then he starts rigging elections and suppressing opposition.
The job vacancy-to-applicant ratio now stands above parity, though it does remain low – even below 50% – in jobs such as clerical work, where automation is replacing workers and suppressing wages.
The Midwestern and mountain states also carried the frontier culture of white settlers suppressing native Americans and Asian and Hispanic immigrants.
Instead of suppressing the terrorists, they have been treated as part of the solution to instability in the Balkans.
But China’s rulers permit discussion of the Cultural Revolution only within this official framework, suppressing any and all unofficial reflections.
Trump’s top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, insists that China is suppressing the value of its currency, the renminbi.
Over the past three decades, the US has de facto tolerated currency manipulation by its major Asian trading partners, which built up large trade and current-account surpluses by suppressing the value of their currencies.
Several countries’ laws proscribe incitement of racial hatred, which can be justified, consistently with Mill’s defense of liberty, if such laws really focus narrowly on incitement of hatred rather than on suppressing arguments, bad as they may be, that appeal to people’s intellectual capacities.
States, after all, are usually the forces suppressing their demands.
Supporters of Rouhani used online platforms not only to mobilize voters, but also to fact-check Raisi’s proposals and expose his past actions in suppressing the opposition.
Using exchange rates to boost net exports is a zero-sum game at a time when private and public deleveraging is suppressing domestic demand in countries that are running current-account deficits and structural issues are having the same effect in surplus countries.
Its “beggar-thy-neighbor” economic model – suppressing wages to subsidize exports – should not serve as an example for the rest of the eurozone to follow.
Business owners might cheer, but suppressing wages harms the economy’s longer-term prospects by discouraging workers from upgrading skills, and companies from investing in higher-value production.
If you want to open “new chapters” in relations between old adversaries, you cannot simply close “old chapters” by denying or suppressing history.
For Thailand’s military-political axis and its supporting pillars in the judiciary and bureaucracy, suppressing these voices has become increasingly unworkable.
And, despite the absence of evidence that mobile phones pose any kind of danger, former Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich, alleging that officials were suppressing information, introduced the “Cell Phone Right to Know Act” to require radiation warnings on the devices.
By suppressing opposition in Moscow, Grozny, and elsewhere, Putin has only put a lid on a boiling pot.
Stealing elections, suppressing the vote, and behaving in contempt of the rule of law are negations of democracy.
As party leader, Shorten continues to generate mixed reviews, not least because of the difficulty he sometimes seems to have in suppressing his instincts as a former trade-union apparatchik.
They, too, are hollowing out independent democratic institutions and suppressing citizens’ fundamental freedoms.
The Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek believed in domestic spying as well, and practiced it both before and after the Communist takeover of 1949, with Chiang's spies harshly suppressing any and all signs of domestic dissent.
As well as suppressing political dissent, these operatives play vital roles in the Party's internal power struggles.
Much more oppressive and ruthless rulers – Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya, Bashar Assad in Syria, and Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen – though seriously threatened, have proven far more resilient (up to now) in suppressing popular opposition.
Indeed, the army is now suppressing another “people’s revolt” – this time, by supporters of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The best argument that the Palestinians could make against the fence is to make it unnecessary by suppressing suicide bombings.
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