The real power is retained at the centre and used repressively.

真正的权力被保留在中央，并被专制地使用。

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Apparent devolution while real power is retained at the centre and used repressively may even increase the disharmony of Ethiopia's nationalities.

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Sport, it is true, also remains an area where some repressively undemocratic countries seek to garner some international respectability.

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Promoting Shariah, what amounts to a theo-political-legal code that repressively governs Saudi society and that the Saudis (and other Islamofascists) seek to impose on all of us, Muslims and non-Muslims, alike.

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