He joined the repressive apparatus shortly before the Romanian communist regime was officially established.

He used aliases and tried to make himself lost in the Carpathian Mountains, but was tracked down by the repressive apparatus.

Traditional Left analyses have a uniformly negative image of the police as a repressive apparatus of the state.

The power to allocate the increasingly scarce food and medicines provides another tool for his repressive apparatus.

But since the collapse of Communism and its repressive apparatus, these gangs have become far more sinister.

"Created by the darkest forces, it is enthusiastically amplified by the state's repressive apparatus."

The Syrian government reportedly responded to the strike by deploying elements of its repressive apparatus and by using violence.

Finally, European immigration policy has been reduced by the Member States to its repressive apparatus.

Bureaucracy for Lenin was clearly associated with the repressive apparatus of the state.

It thereby assists the maintenance of domestic capitalist interests and elaborates its repressive apparatuses.