Sentence examples for oppressive climate from inspiring English sources

Naturally, university administrators have taken advantage of the oppressive climate.

That was a bold position to take in an oppressive climate.

At a time when other folk song collectors such as George Butterworth were dying in the trenches during the first world war, Sharp was on a mission in the US, battling ill-health exacerbated by the oppressive climate as he obsessively attempted to unravel the heart of the old world in the purity of folk songs he found in the new.

Born and raised in Charleston, Sadick remembers the oppressive climate in which the flag was originally erected.

Amid such an oppressive climate, Arango flourished as "Adrian," an exotic interpretive dancer and sultry femme fatale at Club 82.

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

When he took office, he said, "Failed government policies left us with a $5 billion deficit, massive job losses, bloated government bureaucracy, an oppressive regulatory climate and the highest taxes in America".

In an oppressive cultural climate where the most innocuous pop from the West still feels slightly subversive, even the Archies' "Sugar, Sugar" and Shocking Blue's "Venus" ring like rebel yells.

In the course of outlining the oppressive political climate in Egypt since July 2013, Shahin goes even further in his comparisons to say, "he (Sisi) is exactly like Saddam Hussein".

And the censorship is tighter than in Pyongyang, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, with fewer people permitted to possess mobile phones and "a media climate so oppressive that even reporters for state-run outlets live in constant fear of arrest".

Magaluf started out as a dream of what Britain could never have been under its own oppressive meteorological and political climates.