<noun.state> the long repression of Christian sects
(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
<noun.process>
the act of repressing; control by holding down
<noun.act> his goal was the repression of insolence
Repression \Re*pres"sion\ (r?-pr?sh"?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]pression.] 1. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.
2. That which represses; check; restraint.
Feb. 1 The Flint (Mich.) Journal on the State of the Union: East Europe's great Freedom Revolution of 1989 has shredded the Iron Curtain and continues to bring down walls of communist repression.
We will do what we can to give political and material support to the population in northern and southern Iraq while the regime continues its repression.
At least 8,000 Estonians attended an outdoor rally and filled the Tallinn town hall for a panel discussion about Josef Stalin's repression of the Baltic states.
Last Friday, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev condemned past anti-religious repression and called for a more tolerate attitude toward religion.
The army, which rose against Ceausescu on Friday, was joined by amateur revolutionaries suddenly at war after decades of repression.
They contend elections have been part of a U.S.-imposed counterinsurgency project to provide a facade of democratic civilian rule over an edifice of military repression.
They have also lashed out at any hint that Bush is trying to ease sanctions against China, imposed last year as punishment for its repression of pro-democracy reforms.
After the shock of a civil war or large-scale repression, a move to reclaim strategic depth in Central Europe might not seem especially daunting, and ruined oil and coal production might be the cause of a foray south.
Dutch authorities have said many of the refugees aren't victims of political repression but come to Western Europe for economic reasons.
U.S. chief delegate Morris B. Abram told delegates that more than 20,000 people had fled Romania in the past 18 months to escape political and economic repression.
"For us, practical results will be whether they release political prisoners, how they treat the independent press and whether they end repression against people in independent groups," Timofeyev said by telephone.
On Tuesday, leading cultural and academic figures working with the group condemned the Culture Ministry for announcing a design competition for a monument to victims of state repression under Josef Stalin.
Lu Ya-li, a political science professor at National Taiwan University, said the opposition party's statement could lead to repression by conservative Nationalists.
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi announced today that his country's Davis Cup team was canceling a visit to Israel to protest Israeli "repression and atrocities" against Arabs in the territories.
"Society is slowly waking" in protest against repression, banned playwright Havel told the Panorama public affairs show.
We have seen this before and the country fell into repression," said Jean-Juste, director of Miami's Haitian Refugee Center.
But reluctant reform is better than the alternative of repression.
An Amnesty International report on human rights accuses Colombia's armed forces of political repression and murder, but government officials criticized the study as one-sided.
The repression has led each of us to take appropriate measures to express our deep sense of condemnation, to suspend bilateral Ministerial and high-level contacts, and also to suspend arms trade with China, where it exists.
Kim said his party will begin a nationwide petition drive in September to press for more democracy and will organize rallies in 27 cities to denounce political repression.
Namphy was overthrown in the revolt Avril rode into power. Noncommissioned officers who led the coup claimed they ousted Namphy because they were outraged by state-sponsored murder and political repression.
Nov. 18 _ In the largest protest since Bulgaria became a Communist nation, 50,000 people demand more democracy, free elections, respect for human rights and an end to 45 years of police repression.
The directive requires wariness about requests to visit locales that are home to China's minorities, where ethnic repression has been reported, and it reflected anger about television and reports on prison labor and political prisoners.
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan ordered Aeroflot to terminate its service to Washington, citing Soviet repression in Poland.
Mr. Fu's life story reflects the cycle of reform and repression that has characterized Communist China.
The insurgents set the following conditions, besides postponement: _A halt to what they call the armed forces' "repression" of labor and campesino leaders and of street demonstrations.
'People in Baden-Wurttemberg are willing to welcome genuine war refugees and victims of political repression.
"I think it was the first time there was a political meeting without repression and I think it was because of the presence of Mr. Reagan," Democratic Union member Yuri Mityunov said later in a telephone interview.
The strikers are demanding the release of the detainees as well as punishment for police who beat protesters and written assurances that those in the cathedral building will not face repression, activist Zygmunt Lenyk said.
It's a fragmented memory play about an American theater professor who returns to Prague several years after the 1968 Soviet invasion and discovers what repression can do to people who have tasted freedom.