Moreover, the same transmitter may have activating as well as repressive functions.
They did protect the gas station, for example, and some other specific stores with the zeal that the repressive forces reserved for big chain supermarkets.
In countries with repressive governments, feelings of discontentment among citizens may encourage actions that contribute to greater liberalization of the political and economic process.
Besides, privatisation was more likely where the political regime was more repressive.
Protest gained impetus in response to the repressive rules or intransigence of the regime.
As opposition to his autarchic style mounted in the following months, the dictator employed increasingly repressive measures to subjugate dissenting voices.
All the same one wonders how exactly poor relief could be both repressive and unimportant.
In sum, most historians looked down on repressive and marginal poor relief systems.
