Sentence examples for oppressive action from inspiring English sources

'In this country, from the popular character of our institutions, there has seldom been any contest between the government and the citizen, which required the existence of the grand jury as a protection against oppressive action of the government.

Protesters saw that as oppressive action.

While evidence of abuse is anecdotal and hard to verify because of restricted access to the region, Dr Uddin, a biologist at Pennsylvania State University, says his sources tell him that the Burmese government has stepped up oppressive action.

These "black misandric stereotypes" are unfounded resulting in harsher and more punitive forms of oppressive action toward the black community.

"To put on the state license plate a flag that symbolized fear, intimidation, oppressive action, brutality, slavery and the death of slaves... and the brutality of Jim Crowism is an outrage and will not be tolerated," said Rep. Jackson Lee, who is black, according to The Hill.

Or just against the Israeli government's oppressive actions?

As a nurse, she hoped to care for the sick while teaching them about the oppressive actions of the Chinese government.

I am Jewish – but I cannot condone the Israeli government and their agents' criminal and oppressive actions (see the video on your website of an Israeli police officer tipping a disabled Palestinian man, Majed al-Fakhouri, out of his wheelchair).

In moments like these, it becomes incredibly important for those who believe in freedom and justice to resist such oppressive actions.

An outspoken pro-gun advocate, in a 2012 debate he likened the long gun registry to oppressive actions taken by Adolf Hitler in 1939.

I say, that those in the media, experts and Muslims themselves must stop purporting religion as the reason for radical, extreme and oppressive actions and stop this 1percentt from using Islam in placing a distance between themselves and their evils.