Sentence examples for form of oppressive from inspiring English sources
Because Egypt's Muslim clerics wield great influence, I fear that a popular movement may give rise to a different form of oppressive government.
"That case rested on a version of events that was intended to persuade the court that Sheikh Hamad had pursued some form of oppressive personal vendetta against Mr Al-Attiya".
The writer and director Christian Braad Thomsen calls #MeToo a "witch hunt" in which the activists are the "transgressors" and the men victims, and the film director Ole Bornedal has depicted #MeToo as an "inquisition" and a form of oppressive "socio-fascism".
Crucifixion combines torture and death and produces the spectacle of pain that warned others not to resist, a specific form of oppressive power at which the Romans so excelled.
Though through an array of exhibitionism, narcissism, and voyeurism, these Caribbean women have taken on the true essence of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival by resisting a form of oppressive societal norms and expressing their absolute feminist freedom.
If you're planning to forcibly take over an existing dictatorship or take down another form of oppressive government, you already have that enemy.
In the course of a reporting trip for a forthcoming article, I've been asking some of the authors and guardians of South African democracy what advice they would offer to an Egypt, a Libya, a Tunisia and other places that are struggling to emerge from various forms of oppressive rule.
It gave hope through cooperation and struggle against all forms of oppressive colonial forces.
These "black misandric stereotypes" are unfounded resulting in harsher and more punitive forms of oppressive action toward the black community.
That the innocent Nike foot soldiers in front of me would morph into a terrifying kaleidoscope of bum-fluff demons, their neon rosary beads and NOS balloons forming some kind of oppressive Goblin City on the streets of West London.
What Chanel liberated was the natural line of the body, which entailed, as most liberations do, a new form of tyranny — the oppressive maintenance of a svelte, toned silhouette.
