Scott McClellan, the press secretary, added that while there were "very few" issues on which the Bush brothers disagreed, "One thing that we do agree on is that there's a very oppressive regime and that we stand together in our dedication to helping the Cuban people realize freedom".
"The NT Intervention [the Australian government's controversial welfare measures enacted only on Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory] is something I still want to address … to find the right words to help people to understand that it's a very oppressive policy".
"But it is realistic to realize that traditional cultures can be very oppressive, especially for women and wildlife, and that technology can help change this".
The degree of self-censorship that exists in Pakistan is very oppressive.
We already live in a very oppressive period, and I am afraid that this might get much worse".
It's one of the most religious nations on the planet, and look at all the political fighting and conflict around abortion, around same-sex marriage, around any notion of LGBTQ equality it all emanates from this very, very oppressive reactionary [ideal] that focuses on the bible and Christian literalism.
All the same, the play follows Mr. Webb's novel in stressing that very 1960's subject, the need to resist overwhelming parents and oppressive suburbia.
Those forces have been extraordinarily weak, in large part because of these dictatorships, because of Arab nationalism and Baathism and a lot of these ideologies that garb themselves in left-wing rhetoric but actually, in practice, are very oppressive.
When you're living and breathing the show, you're living and breathing in that prison, and it can get to be a very oppressive place.
Whenever I am abroad, I find the idea that the police can stop me at any time and demand identity papers to be very oppressive, and I am reminded to be grateful for our own freedom from such laws.
