Sentence examples for oppressive attitudes from inspiring English sources

But atheism as a faith is quickly catching up in its embrace of divisive and oppressive attitudes.

He had become an outspoken critic of Yugoslavia's oppressive attitudes toward religion, and of its new Prime Minister's plan to raze the old Ottoman buildings of Sarajevo and replace them with Soviet-style modernist blocks.

Such discriminatory and oppressive attitudes apply international human rights laws and human rights values in selective ways that undermine the principles of universality and equality on which they are predicated.

The greater risk to the promised land of social cohesion is that today's reversal of the ideals of "political correctness" has become a clever means of flipping the coin and authorising a return of oppressive attitudes towards minorities that harm those of us beyond the mainstream's consciousness.

She didn't seem overly optimistic about smashing the internal patriarchy, adding that while women currently make up a majority of ASSE's leadership positions, in a few years, activists may realize retrospectively that the same oppressive attitudes of society at large were replicated within the movement.

Consequently, a lack of alignment between, on one hand the values promoted (e.g., primacy of human beings) and the high priority given to maternal health; and, on the other hand, the methods set up (e.g., insufficient financial resources), capacities (e.g., truncated leadership) and attitudes of actors (oppressive attitudes of doctors) to reach this target, was evident.

However, our hero's beloved — tired of the oppressive attitude of the villagers — decides to go there, as anywhere would be better than home.

This oppressive attitude is what makes Madame Michel, the building's concierge, conceal her intellectual pursuits in the belief that her humble origins sap all value from her opinions.

They tapped into the cruelly oppressive social attitudes that are typical towards children in, or on the edge of, care.

Nor do we get much sense of the oppressive Victorian attitudes to women that Duff Gordon is so eager to escape.

In the real world, people who live in the country have to put up with struggling retail businesses – five rural post offices a week were closing under Blair's government – as well as, often, closed and oppressive social attitudes and a failing farming business.