Sentences with phrase «when oppressive regimes»

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«When you have freedom of speech and freedom of expression and don't get thrown in jail by criticizing a bad idea, it's more likely bad ideas will get exposed, and it's not a coincidence oppressive regimes are also oppressive in clamping down on free speech.»

Initially, RCDA had support from some of the oldline churches, but that dried up when leaders decided that embarrassing news about Communist behavior got in the way of a «peace and justice» agenda that required cordial relations with the oppressive regimes of the East.

Its capital Skopje presented a city full of traditional pride, ravaged and rebuilt under an oppressive regime only to be restructured by the people when control was wrested back once again.

That book, which asks what a judge should do «when he must hand down a ruling based on a law that he considers unjust or oppressive,» will be or seem to be of renewed interest under the current regime.