Sentence examples for longer oppressive from inspiring English sources

A supermarket whose relationship with suppliers was no longer oppressive and opaque; and which promoted health, sociability and healthy eating; whose social dynamics became more human; and whose data was managed in the public interest would be a different beast.

By withdrawing... expectations from the other world and concentrating all [our] liberated energies into... life on earth, [we] will probably succeed in achieving a state of things in which life will become tolerable for everyone and civilization no longer oppressive to anyone.

An apology for "past mistreatment" only -- and an implicit claim that police are no longer oppressive or racist.

This regime and the dynastic old general can no longer hide their oppressive methods.

Aside from Nintendo, which generally ignores industry trends, games have gotten longer (some an oppressive 80 hours or more), more violent and often star men.

Future generations will no longer be saddled with oppressive pension commitments.

He believes that the Turkish state apparatus is no longer an unjust and oppressive organisation, and that it will behave benevolently and altruistically to all those who observes its rules.

How much longer will this increasingly oppressive, unbearable weight press down on us?" And, several paragraphs on, "What will we do if we're ever... no, I mustn't write that down.

He added: "In a long and complex judgement this morning Judge Riddle has decided that although Shrien Dewani remains unwell and, at the moment, unfit to plea, his mental health has improved to such an extent that it's now no longer either unjust or oppressive to allow him to be extradited back to South Africa".

Spread out over five books, L'Esprit de la Revolution is inconsistent in many of its assertions but still shows clearly that Saint-Just no longer saw government as oppressive to man's nature but necessary to its success: its ultimate object was to "edge society in the direction of the distant ideal".

The tradition of Beveridge, Keynes, Lloyd George and Asquith, and for that matter of David Steel, Paddy Ashdown and Menzies Campbell – the tradition that stood for a synthesis of freedom and solidarity, procured by a strong, but not oppressive state – no longer spoke to them.