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repressive
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re·pres·sive (r-prsv)
adj.
Causing or inclined to cause repression.


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The people described by a long list of writers, politicians, and military observers as "the Gentleman of Africa" cannot tolerate another round of adolescent politics by the Islamist generals and corrupted civilians of the NIF, which repressiveness has been elaborately documented since June 30th, 1989, to the present time -- let alone unwarranted intrusions by Iran or Hamas.
Leftist hedgehogs, applying the Big Idea that those who oppose dictators are virtuous, failed to foresee the fierce repressiveness of Iran's 1979 revolution, which overthrew the shah; applying the Big Idea that involvement 
 in regional war-quagmire, they predicted that the first Gulf war would last 
 20 years and claim 50,000 American lives.
Further, there were a few occasions when these networks enabled certain dissidents to escape from the GMD authorities and from Taiwan itself, bringing them to safety and further publicizing the repressiveness of the regime.
 
 
 
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