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Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said the case provided a lesson in the importance of opposing far-right extremism “with all means needed, preventively and repressively, in the future as well.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2018

Although Ne Win stepped down in 1988, the military continued to rule repressively.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

The concept staging makes good sense and is carried through: it fashions the court from which the principle characters are banished as a repressively Puritan society.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2011

Helen, having survived traumas in her native China, now lives in Chinatown with her large and repressively traditional family.

From Washington Post

"No. Of course not," said Olwen, repressively, but feeling a trifle shaken.

From The Disturbing Charm by Ruck, Berta