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oppressive sentence examples

  • The rebel regime in rhodesia is not only defying the crown and imposing an increasingly oppressive dictatorship.
  • But he was soon to find the lifestyle oppressive, despite the creature comforts.
  • Oppressive regime in my homeland.
  • But my mind was in a turmoil, and the nights became more oppressive than ever.
  • Oppressive in some ways, but by no means all.
  • Either way, the game has an intense and almost oppressive atmosphere.
  • Oppressive dictatorships around the world.
  • This was a small room around nine by twelve feet and seemed oppressive.
  • So there's a lot of people within both these families trying to escape the quite oppressive family ethos that they're living under.
  • Oppressive rulers, in whose realms there was much of what the west today calls injustice.
  • Tuesday 7th february 2006 a deadline could feel oppressive.
  • I found this to be entirely too oppressive for my tastes.
  • Oppressive heat of the summer, they often go to nearby cooler villages where they have second homes.
  • I don't see it as a bad thing that people want to get away from a place that they find oppressive.
  • Putting is no so oppressive; last child was born on saturday morning and i was at work the friday night.
  • Oppressive ideology?
  • This first section of the cave appears very oppressive to some.
  • Britain has a history of being a tolerant country where persecuted people have fled from often oppressive regimes.
  • Oppressive atmosphere crowded in on the narrow, swaying cage around us.
  • In much of the world states remain oppressive, secretive and violent.

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