Sentence examples for oppressive behaviour from inspiring English sources

Ruling his statements unreliable and inadmissable, the judge criticised the police for their oppressive behaviour.

About a fifth of the complaints were for "oppressive behaviour" which included alleged sexual assaults, harassment and unlawful arrest or detention.

We should consider whether relations between the public and the British police – already strained by unusually oppressive behaviour and rudeness – may be terminally affected.

Yet many professional women believe that because of their relative disempowerment they simply have to tolerate such intrusive and oppressive behaviour.

But at the same time, a lot of British people have a keen sense of the kind of oppressive behaviour of which the EU is more than capable, and the associated arguments for Eurosceptism, and even our outright exit.

The Blake review into the four deaths, commissioned by the MoD, and released in 2006, found there was "harassment, discrimination and oppressive behaviour" at the barracks, but concluded the deaths were probably self-inflicted and ruled out the need for a public inquiry.

None of the guys reacted with anything other than confusion and surprise to my behaviour, and that's not because men are stronger than women when it comes to deflecting oppressive behaviours; it's not because women are delicate snowflakes, giant tear-stained crybaby victims of our own inability to stand up for themselves.

There will be some who think the police were right to threaten the young men with being shot if they did not take their hands out of their pockets; I happen to think it is the sort of oppressive, panicky behaviour that we are seeing far too much of and is indicative of something amiss in Britain's police.

TSG officers had been the subject of 5,000 complaint allegations – mostly for "oppressive behaviour" – between 2005 and 2009.

Right from my formative years, I stood up against oppressive and unjust behaviour.

Those fighting forms of oppression have pointed to the use of language as part of their subjugation, from words that have specific oppressive implications to behaviour like "mansplaining" that affect the power dynamic of conversations.