Although Equatorial Guinea lacks a well-established democratic tradition comparable to the developed democracies of the West, it has progressed toward developing a participatory political system out of the anarchic, chaotic, and repressive conditions of the Macias years.

Even more broadly, " Gulag " has come to mean the Soviet repressive system itself, the set of procedures that prisoners once called the " meat-grinder ": the arrests, the interrogations, the transport in unheated cattle cars, the forced labor, the destruction of families, the years spent in exile, the early and unnecessary deaths.

During these discussions, women noted a shared and repressive system regardless of their political affiliation or social class.

The Apartheid system enacted a nation-wide social policy " separate development " with the National Party victory in 1948, following the " colour bar "- discriminatory legislation dating back to the beginning of the Union of South Africa and the Boer republics before which, while repressive to black South Africans along with other minorities, had not gone nearly so far.

* Mobile Suit Gundam Wing takes place in the After Colony ( AC ) calendar system, set after the foundation of the first space colony, where Earth firmly maintains repressive control over its colonies.

Among the many profiles that are theoretically possible in this system, are the familiar profile of the person with explosive anger, profile of the person with repressive anger, profile of the passive aggressive person, and the profile of constructive anger expression.

The film critic Robert Short said that the scalp-decorated crucifix and the scenes of socially repressive violence, wherein the love-struck protagonist is manhandled by two men, indicate that the social and psychological repression of the libido and of romantic passion and emotion, by the sexual mores of bourgeois society and by the value system of the Roman Catholic Church, breed violence in the relations among people, and violence by men against women.

In response, opponents of the bill including Martin Lee have argued that a potentially repressive bill is more acceptable in a system of parliamentary democracy and that under British rule, the potential impact of security laws was minimized by the fact that political leaders would suffer political damage if they attempted to enforce these laws.

They claimed that the Department of Immigration was trying to blame the use of a failing economic system on the Chicano population, and that it was responsible for massive deportation and repressive action against Chicano and Mexican workers.

But under the prevailing anti-communist rules, communists and KKE sympathizers were barred from the public sector and lived under a repressive anticommunist surveillance system.

Disenchanted with German culture after the shock of World War I, Iorga also had strong views on Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany and Nazism in general, taking in view their contempt for the Versailles system, but also their repressive politics.

It was this lack of legal rights and guarantees that advantaged a system of repressive psychiatry in the country.

The socialist revolution in Cuba and uprisings against the South African system of Apartheid led to considerable debate within the party between groups who opposed all violence and groups who opposed repressive violence ( from the ruling class ) and supported liberating violence ( against the ruling class ).

Also, he was one of the architects of the vast repressive system of Estado Novo characterized by the usage of large-scale torture ( it is reported that sometimes he personally participated in torture sessions ) and summary executions against political opponents ( mostly communists ).

Butler reads such a statement as romanticism on Foucault's part, claiming that Foucault's proclamation of a blissful identity " prior " to cultural inscription contradicts his work in The History of Sexuality, in which he posits that the idea of a " real " or " true " or " originary " sexual identity is an illusion, in other words that " sex " is not the solution to the repressive system of power but part of that system itself.

The failed Revolution of 1905, by which the UCR sought to bring about reforms to the undemocratic electoral system, led to the appointment of a conservative congressman, retired Col. Ramón Falcón, to the post of chief of police ; Falcón's repressive tenure ended with his 1909 assassination.

It is an engrossing commentary on a repressive, upper-middle-class New York way of life in the first part of this century.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

The first player's bowl has come to rest just in front of the jack ; the second has delivered his bowl and is following after it with one of those eccentric contortions still not unusual on modern greens, the first player meanwhile making a repressive gesture with his hand, as if to urge the bowl to stop short of his own ; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl.

Hence it is followed by one more important reason for the constancy of the repressive policy, namely, the state's interest in unremitting rates of receiving the cheap labor force that was forcibly used mainly in the extreme conditions of the east and north.

His regime is regarded as one of the most repressive and corrupt of modern times, combining violence against political opponents with exploitation of Vodou to instill fear in the majority of the population.

In the correspondence of Metternich and other leaders of the repressive policies that followed the second fall of Napoleon in 1815, Jacobin is the term commonly applied to anyone with liberal tendencies, such as the emperor Alexander I of Russia.

These repressive proteins are broken down when the host cell is under stress, resulting in the expression of the repressed phage genes.

However, it is also used by some who repudiate the repressive aspects of Stalinism, such as the supporters of Nikita Khrushchev.

( 4 ) Law and regulations became too heavy such that there is repressive fear and people only look after their own good.

However, the potentially repressive element is countered by compulsory communication between the subjects and their leaders.

It has been noted that many Pagans argue that the adoption of a polytheistic worldview would be beneficial for western society, replacing the dominant monotheism that they believe is by its very nature politically and socially repressive.

They claim that liberal ideas of free speech are repressive, arguing that such " Marcusean logic " is the base of speech codes, which are seen by some as censorship, in US universities.

Stalinism is commonly used in a negative or pejorative manner due to the known extremely repressive political actions undertaken by Stalin.

Steroid receptors, on the other hand, may be repressive on gene expression when their transactivation domain is hidden ; activity can be enhanced by phosphorylation of serine residues at their N-terminal as a result of another signal transduction pathway, a process called crosstalk.

Fraenkel ( 1992 ) believes that the " sexual revolution ", that the West supposedly experienced in the late 1960s, is indeed a misconception and that sex is not actually enjoyed freely, it is just observed in all the fields of culture ; that's a kind of taboo behaviour technically called " repressive desublimation ".

Such activism was ideally carried through anti-authoritarian and non-violent means ; thus it was observed that " The way of the hippie is antithetical to all repressive hierarchical power structures since they are adverse to the hippie goals of peace, love and freedom ... Hippies don't impose their beliefs on others.

It connotes an attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past, including the " unperson " — a person whose past existence is expunged from the public record and memory, practiced by modern repressive governments.

Whether Burns would have recognised the same principles at work in the Soviet State at its most repressive is moot.

According to a 2004 Human Rights Watch report, the North Korean government under Kim was " among the world's most repressive governments ", having up to 200, 000 political prisoners according to U. S. and South Korean officials, and no freedom of the press or religion, political opposition or equal education: " Virtually every aspect of political, social, and economic life is controlled by the government.

The future universe of this Legion is an emotionally and mentally repressive society which involves human sexuality and contact being kept at arms ' length as well as Orwellian surveillance of minors.

A radical Left aided by a cultural elite that detests Christianity and finds Christian moral tenets reactionary and repressive is hell-bent on pushing its amoral values and imposing its ideology on our nation.

In order not to be overthrown once having conquered power, Engels argues, the working class " must, on the one hand, do away with all the old repressive machinery previously used against it itself, and, on the other, safeguard itself against its own deputies and officials, by declaring them all, without exception, subject to recall at any moment.

From 1906 to 1913, Gorky lived on the island of Capri, partly for health reasons and partly to escape the increasingly repressive atmosphere in Russia.

From the start they had a clear focus to educate other women about lesbians, and reduce their self-loathing brought on by the socially repressive times.

From an idealist and specifically conservative perspective, lagom will be viewed as repressive: " You're not supposed to be too good, or too rich " ( Gustavsson, 1995 ).

* The surname of Kathy Ireland's character in Alien From L. A. ( 1988 ), a film about a girl who falls through the earth and discovers a repressive subterranean society, is Saknussemm.