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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