Sentence examples for oppressive way from inspiring English sources

"You're in dreamland to say this is being done in an oppressive way".

Though I hadn't been rebellious, I knew the oppressive way boarding school can work on people, and probably still does.

But our hatred is just a feeling, and not something that can impact men in any meaningful or oppressive way.

I very much hope no parent will use filters in an oppressive way to deny their children access to the riches of the internet; but, equally, it does not follow that every parent should feel obliged to provide unrestricted access to all its horrors.

Obviously, no film can re-create the unspeakable degradation of one human being owning another, but in making the attempt "12 Years" insists we feel things in a particularly oppressive way.

Still, Bill and Barb have hewed to what they see as the true principles of polygamy, not to the oppressive ways of the compound.

Many of the artist's sculptures, when displayed alone, have an iconic, almost sacramental aura; his installations feel, often in oppressive ways, ritualistic.

Even his only son, Edsel, who was highly qualified to enter the auto business, was a victim of Henry's oppressive ways.

Bea Nightingale, a teacher in the Bronx in the nineteen-fifties, is in a rut when her peevish brother entreats her to retrieve his son and daughter from Paris, where they sought refuge from his oppressive ways.

He is induced thereby to believe that they will usually not pursue their interests in grossly oppressive ways, and that they will usually wish to live in a society in which other people are not grossly oppressed or deprived".

These include incentivizing those strongly motivated to hold office for material gain to take power by force or exercise it in oppressive ways that help reinforce oppressive governments' abilities to retain control.