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But it may prove hard for him to find enough support for his repressive system.
ECONOMIST: Russian modernisation
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He understood that the ideology that animated them, Islamofascism, was much like those of previous totalitarians: ruthless, messianic and utterly determined to impose its repressive political system on all others, unless prevented from doing so.
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China's support for its increasingly successful and profitable artists and galleries may well be no more than a figleaf for a repressive political system, but the western art world, eager for a new audience and a new market, likes seeing red.
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Even if the police stick to the book, Bahrain has a repressive enough legal system to squash most dissent.
ECONOMIST: Bahrain
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These are newly minted British heroes who Gitmo critics praise lavishly and elevate to the status of poster boys for the repressive American detention system.
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Its political system is repressive, its economy is riddled with corruption, its population is aging (or, depending on your interpretation, dying out), people drink a lot, the railroads are in bad shape and the roads in worse, and the weather sucks.
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And the repressive state-dominated financial system those savings are kept in is actually well placed to deal with repayment delays and defaults.
ECONOMIST: Resilient China
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Using the payments system as a repressive tool for or against certain behavior is like using Catholic Church attendance as a way to target illegal immigrants.
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When Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in December 2010, in an act that ignited youth driven revolution across Tunisia and throughout the Arab world, he was rallying against a system that was not only corrupt and repressive but which offered little prospect of decent jobs for young people like himself.
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