Sentence examples for becoming oppressive from inspiring English sources
THE echoes from the 1970s and 1980s are becoming oppressive.
The result is remarkable: a space that manages to maintain the intensity and focus of a grand stadium without that intensity becoming oppressive.
Grim tragedy, biblical in proportion, seems to be the catalyst that propels these stories men gone missing, children gone missing, floods and fires and killings all hinting at allegories of redemption and retribution without ever becoming oppressive.
Do the benefits of getting the world to cooperate on environmental problems outweigh the possible costs of the government becoming oppressive?
Beyond condoning or condemning the legalities of these acts, one must consider them as a natural response within society when people feel that the powers of their government are becoming oppressive or abusive.
How should we establish checks and balances to restrict power, to prevent legitimate power from degenerating and becoming oppressive?
This, it is argued, will maintain male dominance in the relationship without it becoming too oppressive.
Sudden variations of temperature are possible, but summers are consistently dry and hot, becoming especially oppressive in July and August, when temperatures sometimes rise above 100 °F (38 °C).
Through the support he saw coming from the United States for him, he started becoming more oppressive and taking away the rights of the people.
When months pass like that, as we all know they sometimes do, measures more drastic than alterations in facial hair may need to be taken to keep the passage of time from becoming too oppressive.
It was the same kind of propaganda about how 'We are endangered' and 'We have to be united.' " Soros supported the military strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan, but, after the passage of the U.S.A. Patriot Act and the Bush Administration's decision to invade Iraq in a preëmptive strike, he came to believe that the American government was itself becoming an oppressive regime.
