Sentence examples for oppressive role from inspiring English sources

It reaffirms the oppressive role of men in the society".

Interestingly, the luciferase activity of all four different p53-regulated genes was significantly repressed after overexpression of KSR1, suggesting an oppressive role of KSR1 on p53 activation (basal levels and after etoposide treatment; Figure 2A).

Films such as Living in Darkness which show how women are criminalised for not fulfilling oppressive roles around marriage and motherhood.

The "Sociobiology Study Group" was concerned that Wilson was trying to argue that many problematic or harmful features of current societies, such as oppressive gender roles, negative race relations and interpersonal aggression might be unchangeable (Sociobiology Study Group of Science for the People, 1976).

Rosler's 1975 "Semiotics of the kitchen" addresses the oppressive domestic roles imposed upon women through the shape of a traditional cooking instructional video.

Though this challenge could have been leveled at both Democrats and Republicans, let's start with the G.O.P. Dick Cheney, the party's vice presidential nominee, complained throughout his political career about the oppressive, wasteful, inefficient role of big government.

In patriarchy's rigid gender roles, oppressive to all, men cannot be conceived as intimate terrorism's victims, as this injects fear and insecurity in the 49 per cent primed to dominate.

Onerous taxation and oppressive rule?

By chastising Barb for ignoring the Proclamation on the Family, she is revealing her own conservative (and some would say oppressive) views on gender roles.

Now, the US was playing the role of the oppressive regime, where British citizens could be disappeared to.

As the book goes on, in step with Tolstoy's increasing religiosity and his disenchantment with the project, he does put an increasing and sometimes oppressive emphasis on women's role as mothers.