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Methinks it had been rather our parts to stick together in repressing these violent and unlawful intrusions and injuries dayly offered to our common mother, the holy Church of Christ, than by any manner of persuasions to help or set forward the same.

Ss Petri & Pauli John 2009

Methinks it had been rather our parts to stick together in repressing these violent and unlawful intrusions and injuries dayly offered to our common mother, the holy Church of Christ, than by any manner of persuasions to help or set forward the same.

The fort is betrayed even of them that should have defended it. John 2009

This is similar to the practice of China government in repressing human rights activist Tan Zuoren, who disclosed the bean dreg school building construction problem in the Sichuan earthquake, with the charge of inciting sedition.

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Austen thereby achieves the effect of normalizing heterosexual desire and pathologizing sexual repression while also expressing what must have been her poor opinion of the success such moral stories had in repressing women's sexuality or their desires.

'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006

Regardless of the truth, the winner is the side who is successful in repressing the other.

Bias on Wikipedia? 2006

Don Porfirio matched ambition in repressing rebellion with enthusiasm for culture.

A gala in Oaxaca 2000

Don Porfirio matched ambition in repressing rebellion with enthusiasm for culture.

A gala in Oaxaca 2000

In the destruction of these two young priests by the infliction of an awful judgment, the wisdom of God observed the same course, in repressing the first instance of contempt for sacred things, as he did at the commencement of the Christian dispensation (Ac 5: 1-11).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

He is a man of a mild disposition, respected by the chiefs of the neighbouring principalities; and although active in repressing to the best of his ability the system of kidnapping and traffic in slaves, practised by the people of his tribe, has maintained a degree of influence over them amounting to veneration.

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

Yet the power of the pope has often been of great service in repressing the excesses of sovereigns, and in softening manners. —

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206