As a child, she always had to repress her anger because her parents wouldn't allow her to argue with them.
If you always repress your feelings, you could end up with high blood pressure or something.
His long repressed aggression finally exploded in a fit of rage.
Because he
was sexually repressed, he had difficulty with his love relationships.
Catholic priests must learn to repress their sexual urges because they have to take a vow of celibacy.
Oil companies have a long history of collaborating with repressive governments to extract valuable resources,
with little concern for the people who live near them.
Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador was murdered for preaching against the violent repression of his countrymen.
After years of political unrest, and repression of the black majority, the new government has succeeded in establishing
a certain stability in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela was able to recreate his country after decades of repression of its people under apartheid.
Sigmund Freud believed that repression of the sense of smell was a major cause of mental illness.
In most societies, there are powerful attempts to control and sometimes repress minorities.
Studies show that riots emerge mainly in those cities where disorderly tactics can work - where riots stand a chance of getting results other than all-out repression.
According to the Marxist perspective, it is the family that is most responsible for the repression of women.
In the seventeenth century, Holland rebelled against the repressive Catholic domination of Philip II of Spain.
She learned to repress her sexual desires because her parents taught her they were immoral and sinful.
Political opposition was not permitted in Chile during the repressive regime of Augusto Pinochet.
After being repressively ruled throughout its history, the country finally elected its first democratic government in the early 1990s.
The rights of ethnic minorities are repressed by the majority in many of the world's nations.
Many doctors now believe that repressing negative emotions such as anger can cause diseases like cancer and heart disease.
Repressed feelings such as anger or fear are sometimes let out as crying or laughing.
South Africa's repressive racial policies finally came to an end with the election of Nelson Mandela as President.
During the whole of the 1950s, Nelson Mandela was the victim of various forms of repression, including being banned, arrested and imprisoned.
Some people suggest that the Japanese and the British are quite similar in that people in both cultures are seen as having somewhat repressed characters.
W. E. B. DuBois once said that the cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
John Lindsay once suggested that there are some politicians who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.
Simone Weil once stated that there is only one thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.
Find someone who comes from a country which has, at some time in its history, repressed an ethnic minority.
Discussion question: Do you think that repressing emotions can lead to health problems?