In the world of this novel, happiness means rejecting the old hierarchies of church and family, with their oppressive demands and stifling repressions, to seek instead the family of those who will share your pain, who will help you get it all out.
Otherwise, they may flat-out refuse, or embroil the company in costly negotiations and make oppressive demands.
In "The Affirmative Character of Culture" Marcuse, in good dialectical fashion, shows how culture separates itself from society or civilization and creates the space for critical thought and social change but then succumbs to the oppressive demands of bourgeois society.
Yet it is not uncommon, for example, for right-wing critics to accuse students (or other professors) who insist that women's voices or the voices of people of color be included in the curriculum of making rigid, oppressive demands that infringe upon academic freedom.
Yet the American Revolution did not so much start with a bang as with a whimper--a literal cry for relief from people groaning under the weight of an oppressive government's demands.
Avenatti's lawyers called the requests 'unduly burdensome and oppressive' and said the demand for tax returns 'violates the right to financial privacy.'" And in July, the judge assigned to his divorce proceedings scolded the 2020 hopeful for not handing over his tax returns and other financial documents.
Although sufficientarian approaches claim to make the demands of justice less oppressive, they have been criticized as demanding too much and too little.
We call on Snap Inc. and other global media organisations to reject demands of oppressive regimes to silence journalists.
As it touched Nishida's early years, this "modernization" came in the form of both a rigid, often oppressive school atmosphere that demanded obeisance to the emperor, and a liberating exposure to the progressive ideas of the Japanese "Enlightenment" that had introduced western philosophy to Japan.
Since rulers always tried to collect their revenue in full, this impost, in addition to the regular revenue demand, was regarded as oppressive.
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 17(c) allows a subpoena recipient to ask a court to quash it on the ground that the demand is "unreasonable or oppressive".
