Sentence examples for oppressive one from inspiring English sources

As dramatized, the cramped, stale, Murphy-bed world she grew up in is a particularly oppressive one.

The head veil with or without the face veil (which incidentally is not a religious requirement) is in fact a liberating and an empowering force rather than an oppressive one.

"Inventions" foregrounds this tension by exposing the absurdity of Morris's forced disbelief in the face of what would have been obvious to Singer's contemporaneous readers: that Stalin's regime was a murderous and oppressive one, which annihilated its allies more easily than its enemies.

Considering that Kenyans were suffering under oppressive one party rule not so long ago, the inclusive nature of a referendum is progress.

The regime at school was a very oppressive one ... the same kids who are susceptible to bullying by other kids are also susceptible to bullying by the teachers".

It permits allies of the US - including aggressively oppressive ones - to benefit from indiscriminate spying on their citizens' communications.

In China, the Communist party finally revoked its oppressive one-child policy.

That the Chinese government is under increasing pressure to lift its oppressive one-child policy is welcome news ("Pressure Grows in China to End One-Child Law," front page, July 23).

HAVANA — Rising prices following years of economic failure, five decades of oppressive one-party rule, an aged first family, an education system producing graduates with few prospects, a rich exile community waiting in the wings.

In America we do not have a reflexive distrust of big, successful companies, only of corrupt, oppressive ones.William Markham San DiegoHarper's realmSIR – The "assertion of sovereignty" is irrelevant to Canada's policy on the Arctic ("Harper of the melting North", August 29th).

I frequently complain about the industry myself in this space, but not this week, because I spent much of it in Havana … which basically felt like a picturesque disaster area, still under the thumb of oppressive one-party rule.