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  • It compared Aids scientists to latter-day Nazi concentration camp doctors and portrayed black people who accepted orthodox Aids science as "self-repressed" victims of a slave mentality.

    Mbeki still in denial 2007

  • It compared Aids scientists to latter-day Nazi concentration camp doctors and portrayed black people who accepted orthodox Aids science as "self-repressed" victims of a slave mentality, according to the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • It compared Aids scientists to latter-day Nazi concentration camp doctors and portrayed black people who accepted orthodox Aids science as "self-repressed" victims of a slave mentality.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007

  • They were nice, but I feel self-repressed, and that leaves me feeling a bit bitter.

    Pieces of advice I'm tired of hearing/seeing even when they're not addressed to me ailbhe 2006

  • β€œIt may help you in breaking the hard truth to the orphan sisters,” he said, in his quiet, self-repressed way,

    No Name 2003

  • He is a man of the world, strong and self-repressed; yet now he turns suddenly pale, and his eyes darken.

    Only an Irish Girl

  • And Albert wept at our parting, not angrily like the ordinary child, but a few, self-repressed, strong, manly tears.

    My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914

  • A swift vision came to me of a man, young, alert, commanding, stern under necessity, self-repressed at all times -- a man who by the very dominance of his character had awed into submission the fierce Northern tribes of a continent, who had compelled men to follow him until the life had all but ebbed from their bodies, who had led them to victory in the end.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • It was unlike her, for she was usually so self-repressed; and, being unlike her, accentuated both sides of her character the more.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • A swift vision came to me of a man, young, alert, commanding, stern under necessity, self-repressed at all times -- a man who by the very dominance of his character had awed into submission the fierce Northern tribes of a continent, who had compelled men to follow him until the life had all but ebbed from their bodies, who had led them to victory in the end.

    The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909

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