Another goal, Mr. Rumsfeld said, is to provide relief aid "to Afghans suffering truly oppressive living conditions under the Taliban regime".
Paul Hosman, Kalamazoo, Mich.: When the world — particularly the Western world — puts in place political, economic and military barriers too daunting to be overcome legitimately, those suffering under oppressive policies have nowhere to turn other than to violence.
And, while warning against the dangers of intervention, he offers no answer to the question of what the stronger states should do about societies suffering under oppressive regimes or under regimes that have ceased to be able to govern.
Considering that Kenyans were suffering under oppressive one party rule not so long ago, the inclusive nature of a referendum is progress.
In 1981, oppressive policing in poor neighbourhoods suffering the effects of a recession sparked riots, which were met with the appearance of long-shield riot officers in British cities.
Donna Leon's A Question of Belief, has her Commissario Brunetti suffering through the oppressive heart of Venice in August.
In his ruling, the judge cited those companies as suffering from Microsoft's "oppressive thumb on the scale of competitive fortune".
The Haitian-American journalist and educator Garry Pierre-Pierre said today that Haiti was still suffering, even now, from the oppressive, destructive regimes of Francois Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude — Papa and Baby Doc — because neither was ever punished, and their brutal legacy has never been examined and exorcised.
Her picture of a village where everything is manicured perfection on the surface but a murky grey beneath is claustrophobic, oppressive: it isn't only Lewis who is suffering in silence.
Any plausible conceptualization of basic autonomy must, among other things, imply that most adults who are not suffering from debilitating pathologies or are under oppressive and constricting conditions count as autonomous.
