Sentence examples for oppressive constraint from inspiring English sources
On stage, Watkins has envisaged Kes as two worlds: on the one hand, the "depressive, oppressive constraint" of young Billy's home and school; and as a counter to that, the expanse of the natural world, which Billy discovers after stealing a kestrel chick and training it.
By breaking oppressive constraints, the bandits are, wittingly or not, demanding a fairer system.
In effect, that energy, if it exists, would be a kind of love a generalized precursor to divine love that owes nothing to organized religion but suggests passionate affinities, rather than oppressive constraints, grand connections that aren't empathetic but aesthetic.
They are harking back to a time when civilisation was at its most liberal and easy to grow, free from the oppressive constraints of chastity-led religious doctrine.
Exploring this data with a feminist lens it could be suggested that midwives working outside of the hospital system are able to work free from the constraints imposed by oppressive medical practices and policies and were able to reflect the autonomous nature of their work [ 57].
The alternative is what happened here; people who vaguely wanted to help — inasmuch as the oppressive nihilism of their automated professional constraints had left them with any sympathy at all — but were completely unable to do so, because their software and business processes gave them no tools, no levers with which they might do their job in any meaningful way.
For a large number of veterans, this constraint ranges from unpleasant to oppressive to intolerable.
She suggests that we examine social and historical constraints on the possibility of "freedom", since such freedom cannot exist in oppressive conditions such as slavery where prohibitive social as well as physical barriers exist.
"That is particularly oppressive.
