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Example sentences for "repressions"

Lexicographically close words:
repressed; represser; represses; repressing; repression; repressive; represt; reprieve; reprieved; reprieves
  1. The repressions which the government of the Republic has hurled upon the General Confederation of Labor show that even syndicalist Kautskianism--i.

  2. But these examples are not conclusive, for I have shown that, as soon as these exceptional repressions were at an end, as, for instance, after the death of Pope Sixtus V.

  3. But my main rejoinder is this, that these exceptional repressions depend upon the jus belli; and therefore cannot enter into the ordinary and constant methods of penal administration.

  4. Because they lead to nothing, they are convulsive maladies, they retard the normal march of progress, and their cruel repressions push the people to despair.

  5. New persecutions and repressions followed under the reign of Adrian.

  6. It is not a choice between a life of impulse and emotion on the one side, and wearisome repressions on the other.

  7. The French Revolution, as we have said, had sown broadcast in Italy the seeds of liberty, and their growth could not be checked by the repressions of tyranny.

  8. Some psychiatrists claim to have traced the delusions back to repressions that took place in early life.

  9. These repressions are buried in the unconscious, and their efforts to come into consciousness cause our apparently senseless and fantastic dreams.

  10. In dreams it is, they tell us, that morbid fears or hateful repressions or unlawful desires of all kinds return to move where they will, unhindered and invulnerable.

  11. The avowed task of the Freud school is the anticipation, the expectation, and at last the careful analysis of these morbid hauntings, these repressions and forbidden desires.

  12. In all such obsessive neurotics the transformed reproaches which have escaped repressions are always connected with some pleasurably accomplished sexual act of childhood but may be almost entirely lost.

  13. What I want to know is this: In the year 5000, when everyone is free from repressions and suppressions, will there be any rebels to spur humanity on?

  14. The professional comedian to be a success must know what the crowd repressions are.

  15. The day's repressions being gradually replaced by the "follies" of dreamland.

  16. The patient's repressions were such that, although the dream struck him as strange and he remembered it several months, he was unable to puzzle out its meaning.

  17. Insight into our own dreams enables us to release more completely the unconscious cravings which it is the mission of sleep to free from the repressions of waking life.

  18. Like our Government in India, they live in terror of popular risings, and are compelled to resort to cruel repressions in order to preserve their power.

  19. Inner repressions or outer circumstances had denied satisfaction and left only an undefined sense that something was wrong.

  20. There will then be found in the next generation fewer half-starved men and women carrying the burden of unnecessary repressions and the pain of unsatisfied yearnings.

  21. Unnecessary repressions based on false training are the cause of many a physical symptom and mental distress which a little parental frankness might have forestalled.

  22. But if the rightfully insistent instinctive desires are held in check by unnatural repressions and misapplied social restrictions, the starved instinct can obtain expression only by a concealment of purpose.

  23. But the woman pays in still other coin for the repressions arising from faulty childhood training.


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