Sentence examples for oppressive tendencies from inspiring English sources

In The Firebrand, Bradley introduces feminist ideals by equating the patriarchal culture with oppressive tendencies; perceived to have been scorned by the male god Apollo, Kassandra is not believed by Trojan citizens because of her gender.

Oppressive regimes have a tendency to force certain fashions on their people.

It is not as if business has a stronger tendency to be more oppressive than government.

But unless the church redefines its policies regarding celibacy, simply allowing women to become priests will not correct the human tendency to act out in a sexually oppressive manner, for sexual repression often leads to sexual oppression.

While prior to 1848 Bauer proclaimed that Hegel had taught "the republic and the revolution," he now decried the absolutist tendencies of the Hegelian system, whose oppressive unity paralleled the historical trend toward an all-encompassing political despotism.

But there are a lot more liberals than conservatives at most campuses, and a growing tendency to reject conservative ideas as oppressive is taking a toll on learning.

What he can't see is Third World and other regimes that are oppressive and not controlled by America". Pinker believes a tendency to treat Chomsky as a "guru and pontiff or a great satan" is encouraged by his own style, "which portrays people who disagree with him as stupid or evil, using withering scorn in his rhetoric.

The machinery of a deeply oppressive system was calibrated to spare them from its most violent tendencies.

"The Czechs recognize that there are a lot of bad things that various Czechs have done along the lines of collaborating with these oppressive systems," he added, "but there's been a strong tendency not to make them outright villains, to turn them instead into comic characters".

More significantly, Byler's tendency to overload his stories with terrible events begins to feel oppressive.

After this, my lack of faith was not shaken, but my tendency to dismiss transcendent spiritual experiences as irrational, or religion as oppressive, was.