Sentence examples for oppressive prosecution from inspiring English sources
After the American revolution, in 1791, the U.S. government adopted the Fifth Amendment to the Bill of Rights, which included a Grand Jury Clause aimed at protecting people "against hasty, malicious and oppressive prosecution," by the government.
In a phone conversation with her boss, he spoke of the "oppressive nature of this prosecution" and recommended that Treadway be more closely supervised.
He spoke ominously of a "dangerous and oppressive world in which journalists fall silent under the fear of prosecution, and citizens must whisper in the dark".
Mr Assange also said the United States was facing a choice between re-affirming the "revolutionary values it was founded on" or "dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world in which journalists fall silent under the fear of prosecution and citizens must whisper in the dark".
Their own testimony cannot be used, and almost 40 years after the event, prosecution will raise a whole new series of concerns and debate about human rights violations oppressive litigation, and the application of the terms of the peace agreements.
However, the overwhelming mass of evidence that we have obtained about the 9/11 and 7/7 atrocities and from numerous successful prosecutions in subsequent terror trials, indicate that revulsion at some US/UK policies overseas and our support for oppressive regimes in the Middle East have been a far greater catalyst in the process of radicalisation.
"That is particularly oppressive.
It never felt oppressive".
The approach is oppressive.
