Repressive legislation should be repealed.

When Bulgaria joined the European Union this past January, I believed that my country had finally left its repressive past behind.

Times have changed, and Saddam Hussein and his oppressive regime are things of the past.

Writers, journalists, and artists could no longer stand the heavy handed censorship and supervision.

Religious organizations can mobilize people in opposition to corrupt, oppressive rulers.

Indeed, Egypt s formidably historic task now is to refute the old paradigm according to which the Arab world s only choice is between secular and repressive autocracy or obscurantist and repressive theocracy.

If Putin unleashes his well developed apparatus of coercion, he will have played his last remaining card.

True revolutions occur only when the old repressive system is thoroughly dismantled and purged.

Turkey has practically resigned itself to the inevitable demise of Syria s repressive Baath regime.

It started in Tunisia, where the revolution swept President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali s repressive regime out of power.

This would mean abandoning the temptations of coercive regime change that hamstrung American diplomacy in Bush s first term.

So the banks and international institutions that lent money to Mubarak should bear the responsibility of their choice to bankroll his repressive regime.

But Egypt s revolution is one whose initial stage ended with power fully in the hands of the old regime s repressive apparatus.

The intention, of course, is to control their conduct through repressive intervention in the interests of a model of democracy conceived in the United States.

In today s atmosphere of what Marcuse would call repressive tolerance, such language would be considered stigmatizing.

Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Have you not practised?

Even a disorderly regime transition, however traumatic and chaotic in the short term, could yield a system that, on balance, is an improvement over a stagnant, repressive, and corrupt autocracy.

The AKP government won praise from both liberals and conservatives for managing to reverse the country's repressive ban on headscarfs in universities back in 2010.

Aren't we forgetting something?

Don't you recognize them?

Aren't you forgetting something?

Didn't I say that?

Aren't you forgetting one thing?

Aren't you in love with me anymore?

Didn't I tell you so?

Haven't we met before?

Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you been told from the beginning? Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

I have a stomachache.

I have a pain in my chest.

I have a pain in my foot.

I have a pain in my back.

I have a pain in my shoulders.

Did somebody call the police?

What s Happening to the US Economy?

Didn't this already happen?

Didn't I tell you so?

Field Marshal (and SCAF leader) Hussein Tantawy retained his post as Defense Minister, and General Ahmed Gamal al Din was appointed to head the interior ministry, whose brutal behavior sparked the revolution.

I told you before!

Did I hear you talking to someone?

Do you have a stomachache?

يا الله ماذا ألم بنا

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