1.   Labour implemented a more repressive policy on the ground than Likud while pretending to greater moderation in the international domain.

2.   The guaranteed absence of external intervention left the regime a free hand to continue its repressive domestic policies.

3.   As he said, the two countries cannot develop a normal relationship until China modifies its repressive policies.

4.   But his release is not necessarily an indication that the Chinese government is changing its repressive policies on human rights.

5.   Critics have likened the proposal to the repressive policies decreed by the wartime Vichy regime that required the French to register Jewish residents with the police.

6.   He has cut loose reformist advisers and embraced a clique of military and internal-security aides pushing repressive policies at home and a Soviet-style agenda abroad.

7.   He is now the architect of repressive policies and conduct that may do lasting harm to his Authority and to the peace effort.

8.   Many long-term aid recipients, it was noted, struggle under the burden of repressive economic policies.

9.   Others would argue that the anger aroused among Palestinians by repressive Israeli policies has made it all but impossible for Arafat to move against Palestinians wanted by Israel.

10.   That gives them a free hand to pursue repressive policies that play into the hand of Islamic and other anti-democratic forces at home.