For the mild, although repressive viceregal sway is substituted that of a swarm of military chieftains, who, fighting as patriots against Liniers and his ill-fated troops, as rivals with each other, or as montanero-freebooters against all combined, swept the plains with their harrying lancers from the seacoast to the base of the Cordillera.

After the death of St. Dominic the Inquisition gradually assumed a more definite and avowed character, and its repressive hand, inflicting terrible punishments upon accused heretics, was soon felt throughout Southern Europe, and later in the Netherlands, the order of St. Dominic at first furnishing its principal agents.

In Egypt the native Prime Minister Boutros Pasha was assassinated; England adopted severe repressive measures.

I alienated from me the adherents of the Government, who felt, or imagined (having been generally, in times past, on the anti-Government side), that if the tables had been turnedif they and not their adversaries had been resisting the law of the land, and threatening the life of the Queen's representativea very different course of repressive policy would have been adopted.

Repressive Measures Of course all rational men were agreed in the condemnation of these spurious forms of religionas absurd as they were injurious to the commonwealth: the pious adherents of the olden faith and the partisans of Hellenic enlightenment concurred in their ridicule of, and indignation at, this superstition.

It is better so; for though many cherished things would be saved from sacrifice if rash immaturity were more often checked, progress would be stayed if life were dominated by sterile and repressive age.

This repressive measure set a larger number of the people thinking of the Negro as a national problem rather than a local one.

And as there could be no liberty of action without freedom of thought, they demanded that all elections should be fair and free and that no repressive measures should be employed by the Negroes "to deprive their own race in part of the fullest freedom in the exercise of the highest right of citizenship.

The men's committee then said that they had never had the chance to meet anyone in authority before, that they were anxious not to appear as enemies to the great English people, that if I would carry out no further repressive action against them, they would continue to work until the end of the war.

They looked bold admiration, and roared out compliments at the top of husky voices, but they ventured nothing further; her manner was too repressive, and the big dogs which always accompanied her were much too fierce to be trifled with.

"I think so, but I am not very fond of them," she answered, drawing back with a repressive air, for the man's manner was more familiar than she cared for.

Severely repressive measures were tried, but failed to extinguish Nonconformity; it stood irreconcilable outside the establishment.

Another sort of sequel to the Southampton revolt was of course a plenitude of public discussion and of repressive legislation.

Repressive methods are out of place here.

I've gained my reputation by repressive acting, by intensity.

His distrust is so profound that he ceases not only to believe in the employer, but he ceases to believe in the law, ceases to believe in Parliament, as a means to that tolerable life he desires; and he falls back steadily upon his last resource of a strike, andif by repressive tactics we make it soa criminal strike.

Meet Labour half-way, and you will find a new co-operation in government; stick to your legal rights, draw the net of repressive legislation tighter, then you will presently have to deal with Labour enraged.

"Repressive measures will be passed in Germany, as soon as the act can be got through.

That will mean again that our own repressive measures will really and truly be put into force.

I said just now that the conversion of the Emperor will mean a tightening up of repressive measures against the infidels everywhere.

As early as 1520 there had begun to be felt at Troyes the first symptoms of repressive measures directed against the Reformation; in 1523, 1527, and 1528, provincial councils were held at Meaux, Lyons, Rouen, Bourges, and Paris, to oppose the Lutherans.

Do you wonder if the term "old maid" has become synonym for everything that is narrow, and hard, and prudish and repressive?

One, who will exercise a wholesomely repressive influence over father, has been more than any thing the theme of my longings; on the unlikely hypothesis of my marrying at all.

At home he was stern and repressive.

This play, a glorification of patriotic devotion and, in spite of the self-repressive character of the hero, as full of stirring action as any German historical play whatever, was presented on the twenty-eighth of February, 1828, and was received with applause by high and low.