Sentence examples for considered oppressive from inspiring English sources

Tyrants eventually came to be considered oppressive, especially by their rivals for political power.

He chose that name, he writes, "not pejoratively," but "because this left seems to flow beneath political realities, carving tunnels to topple the government and undermining the cement of a system it considers corrupt and repressive," just as, he writes, Bolaño and his compatriots sought to "subvert a literary order they considered oppressive".

Justice John Paul Stevens, in his opinion in Rasul v. Bush, observed pointedly, "Executive imprisonment has been considered oppressive and lawless since John, at Runnymede, pledged that no free man should be imprisoned, dispossessed, outlawed, or exiled save by the judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

As Justice Jackson wrote in an opinion respecting the availability of habeas corpus to aliens held in U. S. custody: "Executive imprisonment has been considered oppressive and lawless since John, at Runnymede, pledged that no free man should be imprisoned, dispossessed, outlawed, or exiled save by the judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

Anonymous also attacked Sony and governments around the globe that it considered oppressive.

Taxes back then, although they were considered oppressive, were an absolute fraction of what we pay now.

Does success in toppling this vile dictator justify the administration's ambition of pre-emptive military strikes against other sovereign countries that we consider oppressive but that pose no threat to our country?

Many contemporary philosophers have found in this topic a way of undermining some traditional views of the world that they consider oppressive or inaccurate.

They were run by the private firm, Securicor, because prisons were considered too oppressive for people who had committed no crime.

"You either got with the system or you were out the door," said Ms. Stone, who did not consider it oppressive.

None (or at least vanishingly few) of these western academics actually want to adopt Chinese state capitalism, which they consider an oppressive and illiberal system.