For European motorists, however, life is becoming ever more oppressive.
Members of the working class, students, and intellectuals became increasingly politicized as foreign domination of the city's economic and political life became ever more oppressive.
To those whose world view is dualistic and reductionist, the "conquest" of an infinity of blank space and mindless matter will bring an ever more oppressive sense of human loneliness, insignificance, and futility.
The shackle was Israeli military dominance, the chain was the unwavering alliance between Israel and America, the ball was the ever more oppressive and onerous occupation of Palestinian lands.
Then Van Persie equalised with a close-range finish from a Mata pass and Carrick's shot from 20 yards was deflected into the top corner, sending Old Trafford into a delirium that spoke loudly of the desperation that had been proving ever more oppressive.
On 8 June 1949, George Orwell published his seminal novel telling of a future society held captive by the ever-watchful oppressive gaze of Big Brother.
Simultaneously, the same qualities that arouse our compassion and make these men and women so appealing — their modesty and humility, their bravery and resilience in the face of undeserved misfortune — began to seem ever so slightly oppressive.
Early in the book, Camus links the death of Meursault's mother with the oppressive, ever-present sun, so that when we get to the climactic beach scene, we see the symbolism: sun equals loss of mother, sun causes Meursault to pull the trigger.
They remain as oppressive as ever.
This was once a self-ruling, autonomous region, but Milosevic revoked its autonomy in 1989 and has been tightening his oppressive screws ever since.
