subject sb/sth to repression
Frequency: 7.010.0 per million words
To cause someone or something to experience repression.
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- Reports claimed that civilians were being subjected to ruthless repression.
- The government subjected dissenters to severe repression.
- Throughout history, many groups have been subjected to political repression.
- No society should subject its citizens to such brutal repression.
- Activists fear they will be subjected to increased repression for their protests.
- The regime consistently subjects minorities to systemic repression.
- Children in conflict zones are often subjected to various forms of repression.
- The dictator's goal was to subject the entire population to his iron-fisted repression.
- By speaking out, they risked being subjected to state-sponsored repression.
- The international community condemned the actions that subjected the refugees to harsh repression.