Sentence examples for oppressive business from inspiring English sources

The Office of Fair Trading is revoking the consumer credit licence of one of the UK's largest unsecured credit brokers for "deceitful and oppressive business practices".

Despite Yes Loans making changes in a bid to prevent its licence from being revoked, the OFT said that evidence of prolonged engagement in deceitful and oppressive business practices, and the continuing presence of some of the staff responsible for running the businesses, makes the company unfit to hold a licence.

They needed to get government to respond on a large scale, to address injustice and the devastatingly cruel oppressive business as usual -- work that continues today because of the ongoing pressure from the people.

Even as unused resources pile up in this country, the regulatory environment has looked so oppressive that business leaders refuse to invest here at home, preferring once communist or still overtly authoritarian locales for their future expansion.

Just as obviously, something must finally be done about the oppressive traffic in the business heart of Manhattan.

When I make it to the runoff, we will keep talking about the oppressive climate for small business owners.

Presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina, the fired Hewlett Packard executive who it seems mistook her golden parachute for a testimonial letter, called Cook a hypocrite for doing business in oppressive countries.

While it has labored under an increasingly oppressive debt burden, Charter's business remains viable, said Jake Newman, an analyst at CreditSights.

Anti-arms campaigners called on the Royal Family to stop advocating business with the "oppressive" regime and said Prince Andrew's cancellation was the first sign the Royal Family's support for Bahrain was on the wane.

She said reports on human-rights violations, when done outside a country like Myanmar, are routinely ignored by countries that want to continue doing business with an oppressive regime.

In other words, under the "anti-business", "socialist" and "oppressive" Obama administration, their wealth went up by $12 billion in one year.