Sentence examples for oppressive man from inspiring English sources

Saddam Hussein was indeed an oppressive man who killed and oppressed his people.

Chile's nineteenth-century independence hero and its first President, officially the director supremo, was the half-Irish Bernardo O'Higgins, a cruel and oppressive man whose reputation has undergone a posthumous resurrection.

Steve Jobs is the oppressive man on the jumbotron and the Olympian carrying the hammer is the open-source movement.

Jo isn't struggling against oppressive men, because there aren't any in the book.

The problem with Anne was that she refused to glamorise violent, oppressive men.

When she meets her grandmother in the afterlife, the book delivers one more screed on the vast superiority of loving, artful, creative women to selfish and oppressive men.

Spread out over five books, L'Esprit de la Revolution is inconsistent in many of its assertions but still shows clearly that Saint-Just no longer saw government as oppressive to man's nature but necessary to its success: its ultimate object was to "edge society in the direction of the distant ideal".

Addams identifies the gendered dimension of this oppressive work: "men would … resent the situation and consider it quite impossible if it implied the giving up of their family and social ties, and living under the roof of the household requiring their services" (ABI 540).

It was a Twitter hashtag campaign, #AliceinArabia that highlighted the many issues people had with the show, such as perpetuating a stereotypical story of oppressive Arabs/Muslim men and the lack of using people of color as writers in the industry.

Back in Washington, his opponents have depicted Judge Charles W. Pickering as the personification of white Mississippi's oppressive past, a man so hostile to civil rights and black progress that he is unfit for promotion to a federal appeals court.

But because he is another designer whose sensitivity is a reliable gauge of the times, the melancholic collection he sent out on Tuesday should be considered carefully, even if the mostly black clothes often looked sad and oppressive for a man with a generally light heart.