"oppressive rules" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe rules which are seen as excessively restrictive or tyrannical. For example: "The oppressive rules created by the dictator prevented the citizens from speaking their mind."
Though the New World's free-thinking ways break the bonds of oppressive rules, the encroaching community offers the loud but secretive Sean a surprising measure of redemption.
Critics say that oppressive rules governing campaigning, repression of the main opposition party and other elements ensure that the army will still control the government.
Though the New World's free-thinking ways break down oppressive rules, the enveloping community offers the loud but tormented Sean a surprising measure of redemption.
Touba has none of the socially oppressive rules, for example, of northern Nigeria, where a sometimes brutally strict interpretation of Islamic law has filled the void left behind by years of military misrule.
Laudably, he emphasised the need to make India a far easier place to do business by scrapping red-tape and oppressive rules, mentioning a recent meeting he had with the World Bank to discuss India's awful ranking 134th on its annual "ease of doing business" assessment.
He criticized the idea of having companies like Google and Facebook take down offending content (whether that's fake news or posts that support terrorists), because many countries have highly restrictive, or downright oppressive, rules around free speech.
Onerous taxation and oppressive rule?
Middle-class Syrians, too, are often warier of growing economic hardship than of oppressive rule.
The letter compared the actions of the government "to the oppressive rule of the shah".
He is thus the most conspicuous hangover from the 32 years of oppressive rule by ex-President Suharto.
But I wanted to deliver a message that we don't have to live with this oppressive rule".
