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How to use repressing in a sentence

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Certain genres have traditionally been conceived as male territory, thereby limiting or repressing the expression of female writers.
By buying overstock and, since 1996, repressing classic recordings, the company has firmly occupied what remains a lucrative niche.
Such interest, however, does not provide a morally satisfactory justification for violently repressing the Pullman strike.
From boyhood, he learned to keep his feelings to himself, repressing memories of his father and of the emotional impact of early orphanhood.
On the other hand, we have to consider the interest of society at large in finding our wrongdoers and repressing crime.
If we can stay with it, neither acting it out nor repressing it, it wakes us up.
Only occasionally does he give vent to some of the emotions he has spent the past two years repressing.
I think he finished repressing the Irish and was moving on to repress the Scots.
By repressing female sexual expression in dharmic structures, the patriarchy limits female participation at socio-political and cultural levels.
History suggests that this process could take years, repressing global output and welfare in the interim.
The surprise is all the greater since Sheikh Hamad, when he was head of the army, was part of the team repressing protest.
This means being connected and open, because we know that completely repressing one's emotions is far more hazardous.
At first thought, it seems as if repressing your emotions and charging ahead will protect you.
In it he called on the princes and lords of Europe to unite in repressing the peasant uprising.
A zero-sum phenomenon has tended to appear in which societies have responded to the apprehensions of the rich by repressing the poor.
By repressing Buddhism, Vietnam is destroying this potential, and jeopardizing sustainable development for generations to come.
What touching faith in the colonial state apparatus, the exploiters' instrument for repressing the exploited!
The ranks snapped to attention before the princes with a silence that gave the effect not of noiselessness but of waiting, of repressing, a great noise to come.
I am very disappointed indeed that Mr Persson did not take the opportunity this morning to criticise President Putin for the way in which he is repressing the media in Russia, the way in which democracy is being rolled back.
Without forgetting, negating or repressing the past, they are moving forward from victims to authors of their own histories and futures, able to speak in their own name about their pain, and their hope.
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Examples from Classical Literature
After so many failures you have at length succeeded in repressing your loquacity.
Sears, repressing a smile, agreed that that might be the case.
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