Sentence examples for under oppressive from inspiring English sources

British people fall under oppressive French rule.

Belying the Russian claim, the vote was conducted under oppressive security.

Her new husband says: "We have had to get married under oppressive circumstances.

When people live under oppressive dictators, they have no recourse but violence.

Paradoxically, life under oppressive governments seems rather less suffocating than it does in Ms. Arnold's narrow worldview.

Human rights advocates living under oppressive regimes, where the threat of detention and torture is ever present, need more opportunities to learn from one another.

They walked for hours under the oppressive morning sun.

But there is emotion here, flowing under his oppressive reasonableness.

"They learned that under this oppressive regime, seats in Parliament mean very little".

States are struggling under the oppressive costs of Medicaid, the health programme for the poor.

As much as any country, however, Egypt illustrates the push-me-pull-you nature of technology under an oppressive government.