"I was raised to think sewing, along with ironing and scrubbing floors, was a symbol of domestic repression."

Their quarrel with Beijing was not about diplomacy, but about human rights, and they see no fundamental easing of the domestic repression.

Free love is seen to be aligned with social and domestic repression is shown as upholding the political order.

His brilliant critiques of - among other things - capitalism, imperialism, domestic repression, and government propaganda have become mini publishing industries in themselves.

Since there are few international military threats, much of the hardware the United States provides could be used for domestic repression.

The international community must also be alert to opportunistic attempts by states to justify domestic repression and crackdowns by claiming that they are "fighting terrorism".

Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have leveraged their provision of bases and intelligence into a carte blanche for domestic repression.

The combination of domestic repression at home and military aggression abroad kept no one safe, and endangered the lives of many.

With the measures also came more domestic repression, with thousands of Islamists being imprisoned, including dozens of military officers.

Thus Iraq today suffers under harsh international sanctions and harsher domestic repression, with intrusive inspections and disturbing uncertainty about its weapons capability.