Don Porfirio matched ambition in repressing rebellion with enthusiasm for culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [A gala in Oaxaca] Reference

Regardless of the truth, the winner is the side who is successful in repressing the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bias on Wikipedia?] Reference

Fernando Mazanga accused the government of "repressing" the demonstrators.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

To think otherwise about death for example, is to think that "repressing" death somehow "eliminates" death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanity in general, and America in particular, have become contemptuous of wisdom] Reference

Is Angelina Jolie "repressing" Shiloh by letting her dress like a boy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [WeSmirch] Reference

The opposition Democratic Unity coalition blames the government for "repressing" the.    From Wordnik.com.  [MRZine.org] Reference

"Agreed," returned Germain, repressing his expectancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

'Yes,' the young man answered, repressing a sick shudder.    From Wordnik.com.  [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference

MacDonald copes the way all of Southie copes — by repressing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bearing Witness] Reference

Indeed it was with difficulty he succeeded in repressing a yawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

But she was clearly repressing some lingering emotion -- Sadness?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Mad Men': Who was this week's empowered heroine -- Allison or Peggy?] Reference

Jerry stepped forward, with difficulty repressing his excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service] Reference

He feared the results of the emotion she was repressing so rigidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheik] Reference

He tiptoed away from Morgan's door, repressing his desire behind his beard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

Both shared an interest in repressing the peasantry, for reasons of power and money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Amsterdam: Emergency Powers and Thailand's Internal Colonization] Reference

They have been shunned by the international community for repressing their own people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destroying The Afghan Past] Reference

You are so dignified and repressing that I am always considering what you will think a liberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

He did not reply at once, and when he did, it was evident he was repressing some strong emotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference

Anyway, he'd been a man who suffered so from repressing himself that "privacy" had become a prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story He Told Himself] Reference

He picked them up in silence, repressing the tears that stood in his big black eyes, and turned to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

"Have you posted that letter?" her father asked, repressing as well as he could his show of eagerness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Gold] Reference

I had painted Clinton into a corner, and he responded by resenting the question and repressing the answers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why The President Should Tell All] Reference

"The postman's whistle," replied Miss Masters calmly, repressing a smile as she started for the outer door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Lost Sister] Reference

She made few complaints; she was evidently repressing expression of the recurring symptoms of her discomfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

Your subconscious mind is subconscious because you're constantly repressing or you're constantly keeping it down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilco Reaches for the 'Sky'] Reference

That is, repressing some desire for a time, sacrificing something temporarily in order to gain an advantage later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference

Bob thought he heard him give a little grunt in doing so; but just then he was interested in repressing his own feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave] Reference

However, much of Japan's competitive resurgence has come as a result of repressing employment and wages (not unlike in Germany).    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's Not-So-Hot Recovery] Reference

Some prased him for the repressing of thyft and oppressioun; otheris disprased him for the defoulling of menis wyffis and virgines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference

I'd been repressing for a long time this sort of cultural thing for me, as being a Canadian, was that I was very passive-aggressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alanis and Her Anger] Reference

He thought he might fairly say that if we succeed in repressing the slave-trade, as he believed we should, we should in a few years receive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference