"act" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But any popular appeal to Catholics that such moves might have had was undermined by repressive acts such as the introduction of internment - imprisonment without trial - for suspected nationalist terrorists.
- In the aftermath of World War II, the Soviet Union engaged in many cruel and repressive acts that cannot be blamed on the Western powers.
- And these groups will try to provoke the Nicaraguan Government into repressive acts to score their point.
- Since the Bush administration announced plans to proceed with military tribunals and other limitations on liberties in the war against terror, foreign leaders have used the American example to justify all manner of repressive acts at home.
- Federal marshals still formed a large loose ring around the Indian invaders, but they were under orders from Washington not to try to evict the protestors, lest anyone think it was a repressive act.
- The authorities arrested a prominent and outspoken opposition figure, the latest in a string of repressive acts, according to Human Rights Watch and Ferghana.ru, a Moscow-based news Web site.
- Dismissing recovered memories by adults because some are not accurate and conclusive is a repressive act to deny the violence in our hearts, homes, families and communities.
- Human rights advocates are pressing the Clinton Administration to do more to expose repressive acts by the Guatemalan military, including violence against American citizens.
- Belgrade cannot pass off such repressive acts as purely an internal affair.
- The Istiqlal party described his imprisonment as "a premeditated, repressive and provocative act".
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