The church was severely repressed for decades.

The ruling family has used all of its cards and is now resorting to severely repressing the protests, and this will not pass off peacefully.

During the civil war (1992-97), the Rakhmonov government severely repressed both broadcast and print media; since that time, neither has recovered independent operations.

Socially, Avians severely repress their emotions, neither laughing nor crying publicly.

It concluded: "It stretches the imagination to believe that Echeverría was not aware of plans to severely repress the June 10 demonstration."

Like all faiths, the Catholic Church was severely repressed during the Soviet era, ceasing altogether in Pskov in 1933.

In severely repressing all forms of interaction between men and women, the country leaves a large social space open to men, who are free to pursue relations with one another.

He then had to declare martial law and severely repressed the uprising.

The positions were carefully assigned to achieve a kind of ethnic balance, and to bring women - severely repressed under the Taliban - back into the country's leadership.

Soon after its inception the regime severely repressed the communists and leftists.