Abbas called for "peaceful popular resistance", lashed out at Israel's "oppressive war machine" and said "the criminal acts of settlers must be stopped".
In both West's novel and Barton Fink, protagonists suffer under the oppressive industrial machine of the movie studio.
Throughout "Dance Machine" an oppressive, contrived eroticism persists, yet relationships keep forming: a duet for Megumi Eda and Cristian Laverde König shows an aloof, fragile partnership, while Masayo Yamaguchi and Jeffrey C. Sousa perform with robust playfulness.
He backed the German Free Democratic party and the Greek Progressive party, which purveyed a blend of free-market economics with unconditional support for Greece's oppressive US-led state security machine.
The apparatus is, in other words, a 20th-century-style attempt to strip the scientific lab-machine of its oppressive authority.
It seems the top-down structure of Weyland-Yutani was so oppressive that even the previously obedient machines couldn't stand it.
From inside the machine that lack of trust feels oppressive.
What is left of us when we become just surviving machines, enduring pointlessly to serve an oppressive master?
He pointed, for instance, to the persistence of caste bias, oppressive traditions and historical inequalities in a nation where ownership of washing machines, cars and other material trappings of global capitalism was increasing.
