Sentence examples for oppressive for from inspiring English sources

Its pensions and health-care burden appeared oppressive for an organisation with 2.4 retired workers for every current employee.

This sense that every detail has been obsessed over can be both thrilling and oppressive for the viewer.

Cathartic for Cale (who has himself self-indulgently waterboarded in the final video sequence); intolerably oppressive for the viewer.

"Being a single mother with a single child — for me personally, it seems oppressive for the child," Anne-Marie says.

The small community within which he was operating, so oppressive for his hero, Mani, was for Sjón a tremendous bonus.

They were run by the private firm, Securicor, because prisons were considered too oppressive for people who had committed no crime.

The dark woodwork is suggestive of a gothic church, a curiously oppressive environment for most people, but a warm bath for a man known as "the bishop of Broadway," who actually dressed in pseudoclerical garb.

But unless the church redefines its policies regarding celibacy, simply allowing women to become priests will not correct the human tendency to act out in a sexually oppressive manner, for sexual repression often leads to sexual oppression.

Some of the data presented here suggest, in line with other findings, that for young men 'male peer group networks are one of the most oppressive arenas for the production and regulation of masculinities' (Haywood and Mac an Ghaill 1996, p. 54).

THE post-Civil War South was a brutal and oppressive place for African-Americans.

Migrants who fled oppressive governments, for example, can hardly be expected to bankroll the regimes that drove them away.