Sentence examples for oppressive men from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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".

It reaffirms the oppressive role of men in the society".

Dray also misses the opportunity to show how all the talk of rape, wholly oppressive to black men and women, also circumscribed the behavior of white women.