Not only does that help mollify the many Americans who blame the oppressiveness of Arab regimes for spawning youthful anger and dangerous radicalism.
For all its oppressiveness and self-interest, the junta has wanted to appear conciliatory since seizing power eight months ago.
Later he wrote of its miseries in "Such, Such Were the Joys", a vivid recollection of homesickness, arbitrary rule and the oppressiveness of "team spirit".An underperforming scholar at Eton, he was just young enough to escape the slaughter of the first world war.
They answer the question by persuading themselves that the hostility of the "Arab street", a hostility that al-Qaeda carried to savage extremes, stems from some kind of cultural envy, made poisonous by the oppressiveness of Arab societies and states.But, as any simple Arab citizen will confirm, resentment of the superpower has never been a response to America itself.
In that film he used disturbing yellows, pinks, grays, and greens, even going so far as to paint dump heaps and fruit gray for one scene, to express a neurotic woman's sensibility and the oppressiveness of her industrial environment.
Blatant oppressiveness, and an attempt to stamp out the influence of Confucius and of other sages, could be seen in the wholesale destruction of books in China in 231 bce.
In his collection of short stories, Dubliners (1914), and his largely autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), he described in fiction at once realist and symbolist the individual cost of the sexual and imaginative oppressiveness of life in Ireland.
Such lack of evidence makes it difficult to show in detail the increasing oppressiveness of the Athenian empire in the second half of its existence (450 404), particularly in the 420s when policy was affected by demagogues like the notorious Cleon.
The federal act reduced the oppressiveness of procedures in prosecuting such offenses but provided for federal enforcement.
The Rwanda revolution was rooted partly in a traditional system of stratification based on an all-embracing "premise of inequality" and partly in a colonial heritage that greatly increased the oppressiveness of the few over the many.
Yet the emphasis on oppressiveness can feel overstated.
