1.   Both the Sandinistas and Frelimo came to power after a liberation struggle against highly repressive regimes.

2.   In the face of repressive regimes, the peasantry have shown a capacity and willingness to organise and mobilise.

3.   Their story plays out amid the insane violence of a repressive political regime.

4.   There is a new insistence on the illegitimacy of debts incurred by military dictatorships and other repressive regimes.

5.   When we live with war, under a repressive regime we can not close our eyes any more.

6.   All this has led a growing number of Palestinians to wonder whether he may be creating the foundations for a repressive regime.

7.   As of this week, Berkeley will be boycotting companies that do business in Burma, Tibet and Nigeria, out of opposition to repressive regimes in those countries.

8.   At stake are the efforts by states and local governments to take stands on controversial international human rights issues with sanctions against companies that do business with repressive regimes.

9.   A growing intolerance of repressive regimes and a growing interest in consumer products converted practitioners of communism into devotees of capitalism.

10.   Across the globe, the BBC World Service has been a respected source of information, especially for those living under repressive regimes.