用oppressive造句子，“oppressive”造句

HALF a year since the Arabs began to shake off their oppressive slumber, the picture is patchy.

I always had some writing assignment hanging over my head. At the time the school's policy seemed oppressive, but now I am grateful for the oppression.

How America deals with them, and therefore with itself, will show it to be either the country seen by its bitter critics - selfish and oppressive.

The meek husband used the most oppressive wife.

So the Greeks were the first oppressive power that people thought they could overthrow this way.

It was a decision to leave a particularly oppressive and restrictive way of living and to try living differently.

The British Museum tends to play down the more oppressive aspects of Mexica rule: their constant wars in search of tribute and of captives for sacrifice to bloodthirsty gods helped cortes gain Allies.

The book provides three views of life under an increasingly oppressive and unpredictable regime.

All ecofeminism believes there have been double correspondence and multiply connections between men oppress women and human control nature, which roots from oppressive patriarchy.

Many exiles find Switzerland oppressive and miss London's variety.

In an exceptional case, if in light of the financial situation of the parties full compensation would be an oppressive burden to the defendant, damages may be reduced.

Downstairs, in the bar, it had a much more friendly atmosphere, but upstairs felt oppressive and claustrophobic.

He's the friend of women everywhere, at least for a few of his female readers in the eighteenth century, and for many he's the very embodiment of oppressive patriarchy.

Months of bloodshed, protest, but success: the ouster of the Shah and his oppressive government.