The phrase "oppressive authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a governing body or figure that exercises harsh or unjust control over others.
Example: "The citizens rose up against the oppressive authority that had ruled their land for decades."
Alternatives: "tyrannical power" or "repressive regime".
An oppressive authority figure hovers in the show as at the House of Journalists, where the ensemble cast also constantly changes.
Yet the filmmaker's frustration and anger develop under placid, modestly beautiful, and touching depictions of daily life under siege — both from oppressive authority without and unaddressed demons within.
'Words and alternative ways of talking have served as weapons against oppressive authority, vehicles for solidarity among all manner of disenfranchised peoples, and instruments of extraordinary art', Ana Cara observes (Cara, A.C. (2011).
The apparatus is, in other words, a 20th-century-style attempt to strip the scientific lab-machine of its oppressive authority.
10. "The Other Half" (2007, Ying Liang): The other of the decade's two best new filmmakers, the one who does dramas, bringing a laser-like analytical eye to the crossroads of private life and oppressive authority.
His biggest work of the decade after "Opera" was "Coro," for 40 singers and 40 instrumentalists (1975-6), an interweaving of folksong-inspired melodies with massive choral settings of words by Pablo Neruda, contrasting individual freedom with oppressive authority.
Their new film, similarly celebrating an intransigently independent, anti-social clan engaged in a fight with oppressive authorities, is less coherent and persuasive.
Multiple eyewitnesses have stated that the officer shot Mr Brown as he was trying to get away, after an argument that started (according to a friend of Mr Brown) when the policeman issued an expletive-laden command for the two friends to walk on the sidewalk, not in the street.Confrontations between angry citizens and oppressive authorities figure prominently in the American political imagination.
He says a lot about justice, and he has plenty to say to oppressive authorities who care more for power than people.
Evading the plain rendering of the Greek text in the gospels, Aslan claims that Jesus forcefully denounced the oppressive political authority of Rome, embodied in its tax system.
Her disappointment in the U.S. military industrial complex "supporting oppressive state authorities" fueled her path to Berkeley Law and to its Human Rights Investigations Lab.
