Sentence examples for oppressive power from inspiring English sources

Women rightly reject oppressive "power over".

The Founders rejected that kind of arbitrary and oppressive power.

The philosopher Theodor Adorno also argued that mass culture was an instrument of oppressive power.

Art has as much potential to perpetuate oppressive power structures as it does to dismantle them.

It soon becomes the setting for a strange, oppressive power struggle between mother and daughter.

We have to make sure that our exchanges do not reproduce oppressive power dynamics, but every challenge is not oppressive.

The man only known as Graham ends up leading an aeroplane-based revolution against the oppressive powers who rule London.

Former bishops of Edinburgh may be sceptical of truth and clarity, but there are those struggling with oppressive powers who cannot afford to be so cavalier.

The point is that while we are becoming a safer, more law-abiding society (the crime rate was down 15% last year, its lowest level in 33 years), the police push for ever more intrusive and oppressive powers.

In what follows, I use the term 'domination' simply to refer to such unjust or oppressive power-over relations.

Even thinkers sympathetic to Foucault's ideas argue that, despite the cultural discontinuities that he sought to foreground in his historical analysis, he nevertheless offered a continuous narrative of confinement and exclusion as a result of the oppressive powers of reason (Dreyfus and Rabinow 1983, 4).