Sentence examples for overly oppressive from inspiring English sources
Lawmakers consider the new outfits to be functional and identifiable, but not overly oppressive.
No matter – the planning inspector ruled the conditions were "unlikely to be perceived as overly oppressive by the occupiers".
The Twats do not wear uniforms, but work alongside security staff to enhance safety without making the atmosphere overly oppressive.
Others can be overly oppressive, like New Zealand sauvignon blancs, or too expensive, like sauvignon blancs from California and Sancerre.
It's not overly oppressive like the breckland of Norfolk, or the fens of Lincolnshire, but gently rolling like the lightly rumpled duvet of a snoozing Ceres.
The lack of privacy, daylight and standard residential amenity, he therefore concluded, was "unlikely to be perceived as overly oppressive by the occupiers".
"This overly broad, I think oppressive, subpoena was a form of harassment and unnecessary," he said.
Critics of this view have pointed to cases where it is imagined that persons adopt what we all would call oppressive and overly restrictive life situations but in a way that meets the minimal conditions of autonomy on proceduralist accounts, so that on such accounts they count as autonomous because of the self-governing processes by which they entered such oppressive conditions.
A subpoena could be challenged by Broadband Research on the grounds that it is overly broad, and therefore is "unreasonable or oppressive" under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 17(c).
With it comes a loathing for oppressive rulers, usually identified as overly refined, cruelly civilised, callously imperialistic, as opposed to the simple, organic lives of the films' heroes (heroines do not figure significantly) who are close to nature, though no strangers to violence.
In fact, Patterson argued, Moynihan's report was overly "deterministic," portraying black Americans as the inevitable victims of a long and oppressive history.
