Sentence examples for oppressive condition from inspiring English sources

Mass travel, in other words, is what gravity used to be in the early days of flight: an oppressive condition from which only the privileged manage to escape.

He depicts the oppressive conditions under which employees once had to work in sweltering heat without air conditioning, their delicate, hand-coloured work at risk from a single bead of sweat.

Their woes metaphorically (but obliquely) parallel oppressive conditions in Iran.

The Red Cross set up smoke-respite centers to provide people with sanctuary from the oppressive conditions.

Sweatshop, workplace in which workers are employed at low wages and under unhealthy or oppressive conditions.

Given the oppressive conditions, some considered it the greatest run ever.

When high humidity levels coincide with high temperatures, oppressive conditions result.

Millennium People by JG Ballard Flamingo £16.99, pp304 The middle classes revolt against the increasingly oppressive conditions of their lives.

As the author of the above quote admits, "these problems are linked to the oppressive conditions imposed on women".

We and other journalists wrote about the problems of child labor and oppressive conditions in both China and South Korea.

In protest against oppressive conditions in the United States, Delany moved in 1856 to Canada, where he continued his medical practice.