Sentence examples for oppressive powers from inspiring English sources

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.

Their main goal is an independent state, far removed from the oppressive powers of the Sinhalese government.

Intersectionality recognizes how power works across multiple forms of difference and acknowledges that oppressive powers cannot be isolated or examined separately from one other.

And by performing the play at school (and does s/he get to play the pilgrim or is s/he always the "Indian"?) is s/he merely playing into the hands of the oppressive powers that be?

Culturally divisive issues (such as gun control, same-sex marriage and abortion) can be debated and settled in the marketplace of moral ideas, where economically free and independent citizens can use their powers of reason and persuasion to settle their differences, rather than through the coercive and at times oppressive powers of government.

Women rightly reject oppressive "power over".

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.

Our people needed to challenge all the bases of oppressive power, which were more than just race.