Sentence examples for oppressive ruling from inspiring English sources

Amnesty International said the Anwar conviction and sentence was an oppressive ruling that would have a chilling effect on freedom of expression in the country.

But much international opinion will condemn the exercise in "disciplined democracy" as a Burmese farce, scripted by the oppressive ruling junta.International opinion is right.

At his weekly meetings on Thursday nights, he criticized aspects of the post-jihad caliphate (as indeed did Abdullahi and Bello), especially the tendency of the new bureaucracy and its hangers-on to become another oppressive ruling class.

"It's an oppressive ruling," Mostafa Morsi, the father of a young man killed in the 2011 protests, told AFP of Judge Mahmud Kamel al-Rashidi's verdict.

This disconnect between the State Department's championing of the idea of democracy taking hold in the Arab world and its obstruction of the process through its support of Egypt's oppressive ruling military further tarnishes America's image abroad.

Onerous taxation and oppressive rule?

Even so, an oppressive minority ruling elite demolished it entirely in bloody suppression of street-driven dissent.

In a taped message in February, Osama bin Laden, the fugitive leader of Al Qaeda, listed Morocco, with Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan, as one of the "oppressive, unjust, apostate ruling governments" that had been "enslaved by America" and therefore "the most eligible for liberation".

Whether it is the biannual crackdowns on satellite dishes or the annual crackdowns on such seditions as capri pants, hair gel and ornate sandals, it is a constant reminder of the oppressive power of the ruling ideology that pits the power of the state against the individual citizen; the ideology of political Islam against libertarian ambitions and individualism.

During the 19th century, fear of an Illuminati conspiracy was a real concern of the European ruling classes, and their oppressive reactions to this unfounded fear provoked in 1848 the very revolutions they sought to prevent.

The CRJ's ruling makes an already difficult practice oppressive in the extreme and adds untold expense and inefficiency to an already cumbersome process.