1.   A spokesman for the transit authority, the RATP, said the agents had a dissuasive and mediating role rather than a repressive one.

2.   Therefore, persuasive methods will be more effective than repressive ones in maintaining political stability.

3.   Those soldiers, among the reputedly most repressive ones vetted from the old army, returned for a larger protest Friday.

4.   Those soldiers, among the reputedly most repressive ones vetted from the old army, returned for a larger protest on Friday.

5.   Widodo urged his subordinates to take a persuasive approach rather than a repressive one, according to the Republika newspaper.