Sentence examples for oppressive order from inspiring English sources

Political revolution seemed around the corner, and anarchy appeared a desirable alternative to the oppressive order of the day.

It is disorder that breaks up all oppressive order, and it is always disorder that determines better levels and quality of order.

There is a history and psychology to this of course of black students feeling the need to stick together in an oppressive society in order to survive.

Two judges in London ruled that it would be "unjust and oppressive" to order the removal of the British businessman, who is accused of arranging the contract killing of his wife Anni in Cape Town in November 2010 during their honeymoon.

With "Incarceron," she hit on a conceit that ­passes the narcissistic grandiosity test with flying colors: a hero caught in a living prison that's been sealed for centuries, and a heroine trapped in an oppressive social order itself frozen in time.

In following the fortune-hunting Petruchio's bellicose courtship of the ill-tempered Katherine, most latter-day productions have usually presented its leading characters as either fiery, equally matched sparring partners, à la Tracy and Hepburn, or victims of an oppressive social order they come to realize is wrong.

Two High Court judges ruled that it would be "unjust and oppressive" to order Mr Dewani's extradition.

(2004, 90 92) To dismiss too quickly Négritude as an essentialism of the past, which might have been necessary as a "deconstructive challenge" to an oppressive colonial order but has nothing to say when it comes to the call for cosmopolitanism and creolization, would miss an important dimension of that multifaceted movement.

The judges said it would be unjust and oppressive to order Shrien Dewani's extradition while he is unwell, but that it was in the interests of justice that he should be extradited "as soon as he is fit" to be tried.

"There is a cultural inheritance of exquisite sensibility, an intuition for the most extreme psychological states of mind, and an oppressive social order that inspires fitful rebellion".

"Gender-based violence" is also used in a more inclusive sense of referring to violence that is in some direct way concerned with expressing and maintaining the unequal power relations of oppressive gender orders.