In oppressive, late-afternoon Far North Queensland humidity it was a gutsy, important performance by the Roar.
Thomas believes that in oppressive societies, the privileged are socially constituted differently from the oppressed, and so have different emotional configurations, making them experience things in different ways (p. 186).
Troublemakers and dissidents are rarely popular in oppressive societies.
People who are caught in oppressive systems adopt various stances toward them, consciously or unconsciously.
Another Anonymous Twitter account, which has 281,000 followers, tweeted during the Free Assange attacks: "We're living in oppressive times.
We're in the grip of bitter domestic psychodrama, as the couple taunt each other in oppressive close-up, with their young son looking on.
More than anything, it is a moral inquiry into the relationship of the individual to the group in oppressive institutional circumstances.
At the State Department she backed a policy known as transformative democracy, arguing that the cause of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was rooted in oppressive governments.
Furthermore, both the MMD and the next-largest opposition party, the United Party for National Development (UPND), accused the PF of engaging in oppressive methods.
Ernie grew up in oppressive poverty, but he wants to make life better for his mother, who runs a grubby antiques and secondhand-furniture shop.
Elsewhere, dissidents in oppressive regimes have felt free to speak up precisely because they believe (perhaps erroneously) that they cannot be identified.
