repressive measure

collocation in English

meaningsofrepressiveandmeasure

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repressive
adjective
uk
/rɪˈpres.ɪv/us
/rɪˈpres.ɪv/
controlling what people do, especially by ...
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measure
noun
uk
/ˈmeʒ.ər/us
/ˈmeʒ.ɚ/
a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with ...
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(Definition ofrepressiveandmeasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is not right for some members of the press to say that this is arepressivemeasure.
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No one suggests that the social contract is to be arepressivemeasurefor keeping down wages.
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It is anotherrepressivemeasurethat will not succeed and should be defeated.
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It is arepressivemeasure, whereas essentially the price mechanism is a creative force.
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We have got ourselves into a mess and everyrepressivemeasurerisks making matters worse.
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We believe that regulation should be used not as arepressivemeasurebut to ensure a diversity of programmes.
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That would be a mostrepressivemeasure.
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It is a veryrepressivemeasureindeed.
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Parliament would have the opportunity to go through it and scrutinise it, but it might well be basically the samerepressivemeasure, with a few saving liberal clauses in it.
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Violence and destruction, including the demolition of a glass factory, unleashed the traditionalrepressivemeasure.
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Lashes on the back was the most commonrepressivemeasure.
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Measures of preventive andrepressivemeasureagainst such violations shall be established by law.
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As opposition to his autarchic style mounted in the following months, the dictator employed increasingly repressive measures to subjugate dissenting voices.
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However, even in this context, the state's relations with the majority of the population were not defined merely by repressive measures.
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Moreover, the arrangement also protects the top-level authority's image by allowing it to distance itself from lower-level authorities that use repressive measures.
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Despite state-sponsored repressive measures, worker unrest increased.
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We had the good sense and the great wisdom not to embark on repressive measures.
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Nor could such aircraft in practical terms possibly be used for any internal repressive measures.
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I am anxious that these repressive measures should be stopped.
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It now appears that they intend to initiate more and more repressive measures against them.
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