Oppressive culture examples: Very strongly worded emails that tend to "escalate or inflame issues".
For example, oppressive socialization (which, for instance, might value marriage or motherhood over a career or financial independence) may truncate the range of options that girls consider to be viable, thus interfering with their programmatic autonomy.
Migrants who fled oppressive governments, for example, can hardly be expected to bankroll the regimes that drove them away.
Touba has none of the socially oppressive rules, for example, of northern Nigeria, where a sometimes brutally strict interpretation of Islamic law has filled the void left behind by years of military misrule.
He said: "The truth of the matter is that a regime that is brutal and oppressive, that, for example, has used WMD against its own people, as Saddam did, and had killed tens of thousands of people by the use of chemical weapons, such a regime is a bigger threat if it has WMD than one that is otherwise benign".
Similarly, evolutionary arguments that can provide foundational support for sexist or oppressive practices, for example, arguments for the adaptive nature of violence against women (see Palmer and Thornhill (2000) for a readable account of this research program), have drawn intensive feminist scrutiny (for example see papers in Travis 2003a).
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has long railed against energy-efficient lightbulbs and showerheads as an example of oppressive government under Democrats.
Having forsaken religion at the age of 13, Pinter represents through Goldberg the patriarchal aspects of Jewish orthodoxy; and, having worked extensively in Ireland as an actor in the 1950s, he makes McCann an example of an oppressive Catholicism.
The fierce French suppression of the Nidwalden Revolt in September 1798 was an example of the oppressive presence of the French Army and the local population's resistance to the occupation.
For example, with these oppressive discipline policies in both charters and traditional schools, Black parents are too busy trying to keep our babies out of the cradle to prison pipeline.
