Sentence examples for to be oppressive from inspiring English sources

"The lobby used to be oppressive and dark," he said.

"The whole belligerent campaign appears to be oppressive and about vindication," says Burstein.

The cumulative effect is meant to be oppressive and it is.

In an essay about Harlem, James Baldwin wrote, "The only way to police a ghetto is to be oppressive".

Before he could say much, he was carried off by two students pretending to be oppressive Afrikaners.

As demonstrated by the examples above, case-by-case censorship tends to be oppressive or plain daft.

I mean could it be oppressive to them for us to promote ethics and fairness while they are being cheated by those in charge of things?

If medical tests find him "unfit to plead, or arguably so, it will be argued that it would be oppressive to extradite within the meaning of" Britain's extradition laws, Mr. Jones said according to The Press Association news agency.

Lawyers for Mr. Masri, 54, said on Tuesday that he was physically unfit to face the accusations against him and that it would be "oppressive" to extradite him under the terms of British law.

But, he added, "Her idea of making art accessible is powerful, and while it shouldn't be oppressive to someone else's work, maybe hers isn't.

Point is: Any single opinion amplified via this megaphone method of follower armies intent on crushing alternative perspectives can be oppressive to those with a differing view.