Sentence examples for oppressive trend from inspiring English sources
Other local actions involving shutting stores and removing books from public libraries were attributed by civil liberties advocates to the "oppressive" trend that Keating had set.
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.
Historians debate whether these were capitalistic innovations or traditional varieties of seigneurial extraction, but in either case the countryside was boiling with discontent over these trends as well as over oppressive royal taxes and food shortages.
The major proletarian revolutions, for example, came not in economically advanced countries but in economically underdeveloped ones (Russia and China), and the supposedly proletarian dictatorships they produced, far from withering away or being diminished by inexorable economic trends, became even more powerful and oppressive than the governments they replaced.
Aside from Nintendo, which generally ignores industry trends, games have gotten longer (some an oppressive 80 hours or more), more violent and often star men.
Ignoring demographic trends because they erode your privileges (which is different from being oppressive) does not make them go away.
"That is particularly oppressive.
It never felt oppressive".
Sometimes this was oppressive.
