Sentence examples for oppressive response from inspiring English sources

Russia's oppressive response caught Greenpeace by surprise.

But as Steve Tepp, chief intellectual property counsel for the United States Chamber of Commerce, says, that kind of oppressive response is not the purpose of Protect IP.

Franco-Syrian relationsLike several other countries, including the US and the UK, France cut all diplomatic ties with Syria over Assad's oppressive response to protests against his government, closing its embassy in Damascus and expelling its Syrian ambassador.

Undercover officers behaved violently among the peaceful throng so as to justify an oppressive policing response.

Unfortunately such oppressive and hateful responses to minority progress is nothing new, in fact we have seen similar events in the past.

He went on to imply that the events in Hackney were in direct response to oppressive policing, government cuts and social exclusion.

It was, Sontag wrote, a "response to an oppressive freedom of choice in sex (and, possibly, in other matters), to an unbearable degree of individuality".

In South Africa, many of the criminals are young men who were raised in communities that considered violence a legitimate response to an oppressive government.

It reads, in part, "Celebrating freedom of expression and designed as a real arts democracy, this festival is a critical response to the oppressive neoliberal worldview and all its billboard trucks, televisions, fliers, advertisements, jingles, made-for-TV wars; and the depoliticization of people through this diversionary spectacle".

It's a depressed response to the oppressive conditions under which we're all living: this precarious position where we don't know if we're going to own a house, we don't know if our jobs are going to end, where everything sucks".

Jeff Miers of The Buffalo News calls the album "a response to the oppressive vacuousness of the Bush years".