Repress used in a sentence

Repress in a sentence as a verb

But the first day I did have to repress it. That was a bit hard.

You can't repress memories and emotions you don't have.

What does "years of repressed memories and emotions" refer to here?

Those negative thoughts don't go away, and when team members repress doubts, resentment builds.

And if the powers that be try to use it to repress Apple users, there are tons of other devices out there.

What you're actually asking is for people to repress their emotions, and that's way more degrading.

" But civilized societies repress them, and mostly succeed.

For the first time in I don't know how many years, I won't have to repress the urge to knock my monitor off my desk and install Ubuntu.

Off topic, but that's partly the reason why I'm fairly annoyed with all the "US company is hiring H1B to repress wage" news.

We have a lot of experience trying to repress basic human nature, and we have very little evidence that it ever works.

And everything you've said and linked to does not address this core point, that homosexuals are being brutally repressed in Russia, and not in the US.

You're effectively arguing that it doesn't matter if a law is being used to repress and hurt people, if you can find someone arguing that the law shouldn't be used this way.

I also think that the NSA spying is less troubling that the other numerous abuses of the Obama administration, including using the IRS to repress political speech.

If I attune my mind to repress the pangs of bodily need I occasionally feel as if the external world melts away and I slip into an almost mystical state of oneness with the task at hand.

It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

On the contrary, the aim is clearly to add new first-hand information to the public debate, which has hitherto been deliberately biased by extensive and coordinated efforts to repress that info.

Why can't we say that homosexuality is similar: something that an individual may be predisposed to for whatever reason, but if he wants to avoid society's scarlet letter, he must repress those desires?

Suffice it to say that there is sufficient text in the Christian Bible that someone who builds his moral codes from what he, personally, reads in its pages can reasonably come to the conclusion that homosexuality is a sin. [2][1] Not that I believe that a homosexual should have to repress those desires; I'm merely arguing that this is an internally consistent moral system.

If you want to be a real professional and a leader in what you do, you can not behave like that, you can not repress a problem when someone reports one to you, you have to have the patience to examine the issue, the experience necessary to know when you can be certain that you have the complete picture of it, then sometimes the courage to admit there really is a problem and then finally you have to solve it, or people will not respect you.