51.   Critics of Chinese human rights abuses accused the IOC of having rewarded a repressive regime.

52.   Critics have said that, with the decline of repressive regimes around the world, much of the service has become redundant.

53.   Diplomatic engagement with a repressive regime will only work if demands are forced down the throats of the tyrants ruling the country.

54.   Drug use was almost non-existent under repressive Communist regimes, but has been on the rise in the former Eastern Bloc.

55.   In his writings, Safire has condemned Singapore as a repressive regime.

56.   In the same way, the West supported repressive regimes that resisted the Soviet Union.

57.   It has been argued that economic engagement can make repressive regimes less monstrous, as open markets create a burgeoning meddle class aware of their political rights and freedoms.

58.   It is the generation which, like Sofri, took to the streets years ago to protest what it considered a repressive capitalist regime.

59.   Many are the historical examples of a repressive regime replacing another.

60.   Mohammed Mahdi Al-Jawahri, a renowned Iraqi poet who struggled against repressive regimes and went into exile, died Sunday.