Sentence examples for oppressive of from inspiring English sources

This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions.

This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us".

It is the most oppressive of all.

BCE's actions are "oppressive" of the debenture holders.

Prison is marginally the less oppressive of the two institutions.

Its actual policies may remain racially skewed in favor of Malays and oppressive of dissent.

While this situation is slowly changing, monolingual positions continue to remain non-marked, thus normalizing and legitimizing oppressive webs-of-understandings (Bagga-Gupta 2018).

Again and again, popular music has been described as a story of youth rebellion, in which each generation breaks free of the oppressive mediocrity of its predecessor.

–What kind of steps will the Iraqi Transitional Government take to "end the vestiges of the oppressive acts of the previous regime…"?

That is, women's power in intimate relations is eroded as a result of internalization of oppressive gender norms of masculinity and femininity.

There is none of the oppressive legalese of the courtroom.