Indeed, pro-Southern feeling in Missouri was high, thanks to oppressive measures taken by federal troops in four counties in the western part of the state.
Themes you expect to see in dystopian fiction, like the toll an oppressive government takes on a society, are touched on but unfortunately take a backseat due to the fact-driven nature of the book.
Billy's struggle to express himself and to escape his oppressive surroundings takes place in 1984, in the midst of the bitter, sometimes violent and ultimately futile British miners' strike.
An outspoken pro-gun advocate, in a 2012 debate he likened the long gun registry to oppressive actions taken by Adolf Hitler in 1939.
Central Asia holds little intrinsic strategic value to the United States, and America's security will not necessarily be endangered even if an oppressive regime takes over a contiguous fraction of Afghan territory.
Or, I understand how I am a part of these oppressive systems, take steps to resist these systems and, with the support of many other people, change the course of America's future.
Some political commentators have seen J. K. Rowling's portrayal of the bureaucratised Ministry of Magic and the oppressive measures taken by the Ministry in the later books (like making attendance at Hogwarts School compulsory and the "registration of Mudbloods" with the Ministry) as an allegory of criticising the state.
The term itself is perhaps most conveniently applied as a "check" on those behaving in an oppressive manner, one taking advantage of their social status that upholds these structures.
In 2016 the reality of superdelegates has flipped, placing Hillary Clinton -- who put 18 million cracks in the glass-ceiling in 2008 -- as the perceived oppressive establishment candidate taking advantage of the superdelegate.
A thunderstorm has scudded through town in the last half-hour, taking the oppressive heat from the day, and Mohsen noticeably relaxes.
