Sentence examples for increasingly oppressive from inspiring English sources

It was all a way of escaping the increasingly oppressive atmosphere of the times.

Dilyara Timergazina, his assistant and adviser, said they had become increasingly oppressive in recent weeks.

In 1991, Siad Barre, whose rule had become increasingly oppressive, was ousted.

Taxes and conscriptions became increasingly oppressive to the Chinese population, and banditry and rebellions spread in the interior.

The first volume ends with her liberal parents sending her to Europe, in order to escape Iran's increasingly oppressive regime.

Day by day, the news from Hama became more dreadful, and the mood in Damascus grew increasingly oppressive.

Conceding that some would find it "seditious," Toffler informed the founders in an imaginary letter that their system of government was "increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive and dangerous to our welfare".

You point out (front page, Sept. 18) that responsible people recognize the need for insurance, but increasingly find the cost oppressive, or totally out of reach.

Worse still, Mr. Reagan defined America's strategic interests in terms only of minerals and sea lanes, ranking that selfish concern ahead of the increasingly bloody evils of oppressive, state-sponsored racism.

In addition to eight years of war (which pitted black nationalist groups against white settlers and mercenaries), the country has been subjected to more than two decades under the increasingly violent, corrupt and oppressive rule of Robert Mugabe.

The result was the rise of an increasingly assertive China, belligerent internationally and oppressive domestically.