Sentence examples for oppressive by from inspiring English sources

No matter – the planning inspector ruled the conditions were "unlikely to be perceived as overly oppressive by the occupiers".

The stifling heat was made more oppressive by the thick black smoke that hovered over the neighborhood.

Its pervasiveness may well be judged oppressive by contemporary Western standards, since so much depended, it seems, on mastering the orthodox texts and discipline.

The lack of privacy, daylight and standard residential amenity, he therefore concluded, was "unlikely to be perceived as overly oppressive by the occupiers".

He announced that he would abandon William Rufus's policies towards the Church, which had been seen as oppressive by the clergy; he promised to prevent royal abuses of the barons' property rights, and assured a return to the gentler customs of Edward the Confessor; he asserted that he would "establish a firm peace" across England and ordered "that this peace shall henceforth be kept".

Unfortunately, the prolongation of the experiment time was recognized as oppressive by the majority of the volunteers and could not be applied.

This means that we should stop them by fighting them, by assassinating their oppressive leaders, by weakening their offensive capabilities etc … This is not something that is beyond us at all," he wrote.

While the display highlights oppression, it reinforces the longevity of oppressive modules by undervaluing the multi-layered dimensions of African descendants' identity within and outside of bondage.

Tyrants eventually came to be considered oppressive, especially by their rivals for political power.

But how do you guard against permanent, oppressive domination by a group, a majority, over all others?

He is thus the most conspicuous hangover from the 32 years of oppressive rule by ex-President Suharto.