The weather is so oppressive.

He found the silence oppressive.

The real enemies are oppressive regimes, ignorance, harmful practices, intolerance.

Religious organizations can mobilize people in opposition to corrupt, oppressive rulers.

The Buddhist clergy was seen, not without reason, as hidebound and oppressive.

The oil regimes were oppressive, quelled dissent through torture, and were venal and corrupt.

The oil regimes were oppressive, quelled dissent through torture, and were venal and corrupt.

Naturally, not every response to D'Agostino's comments addressed the struggle against oppressive beauty aesthetics.

Throughout its history, modern Iraq has always been the most oppressive of the Arab countries.

But for millions of Central and East Europeans, liberation was followed by Stalin s oppressive regime.

The current regime is considered to be one of the most oppressive in the world.

For the Palestinians, the situation is oppressive, and for Gaza it is an outright humanitarian disaster.

Oppressive regimes are being swept away, as Arab people finally take their fate into their own hands.

This leaves everyone in the region at the mercy of the Middle East s oppressive regimes and proliferating terrorists.

They claim that the oppressive state labels any action by religious organizations it does not favor as 'extremist'.

After congratulating Mahinour, I believe that her release from prison is a political ploy by an oppressive regime.

A human rights activist may want to see an oppressive regime overthrown, may believe that this is the only long term solution. A humanitarian, by contrast, may want to feed a population, knowing full well that food aid could strengthen the oppressive regime.

The only alternative to Saddam's regime is some sort of military rule, but one less oppressive and relatively more open.

This is a legacy from an ancient time, a justification of a supreme and criminal oppressive era slavery and colonization.

A humanitarian, by contrast, may want to feed a population, knowing full well that food aid could strengthen the oppressive regime.

The fall of oppressive regimes in Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania were all resolved within two years of each country s respective uprising, and in most cases the primary focus of revolution was to overthrow oppressive ruling systems and replace them with something more unifying.

Across sub Saharan Africa, many of the world's poorest people struggle with the crippling legacy of profligate lending to corrupt, oppressive rulers.

He heads one of the world's most oppressive regimes, where there is no pretense at elections and where dissent is instantly crushed.

A human rights activist may want to see an oppressive regime overthrown, may believe that this is the only long term solution.

Maximinus was not a popular emperor and universal discontent roused by his oppressive rule culminated in a revolt in Africa in 238.

In the same way, the Muslim Brotherhood could seize power in Egypt and impose a far more oppressive regime than Mubarak s ever was.

For many around the world who suffer under oppressive regimes, such a credo would sound like a prescription for sainthood or for impotence.

To top it all off, Syria s President Bashar al Assad, ostensibly Turkey s closest new ally, emerged as the most oppressive and bloody regional tyrant.

NEW YORK North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People s Republic of Korea, is one of the world s most oppressive, closed, and vicious dictatorships.

After all, the oppressive nature of the regime in Khartoum is at the root of the many conflicts that have torn the country apart.

American universities and the country s reputation as a place for freethinkers serve as an especially strong pull for academics seeking refuge from oppressive governments.

They condemn the lack of jobs, corruption and the deterioration of human rights in their countries, leading revolts until the fall of the oppressive regime.

PRINCETON What began in Syria as a revolt against an oppressive regime has evolved into a sectarian civil war and, more recently, into a proxy conflict.

In her analysis, it serves everyone for men and women to share their sometimes different but often complementary strengths a conclusion that seems reassuring, not oppressive.

I think that it would be a hypocrisy to stand against it and other oppressive laws in different countries, while supporting an arrest of conspiracy theorists.

These people feared the comeback of religion that the Protestant or Catholic oppressiveness they knew first hand might be replaced by equally oppressive Muslim codes of conduct.

They've all weathered Georgia's oppressive humidity for the nearly eight hours as Brooks lead them on a pilgrimage to the grave sites of the Malcoms and Dorseys.

In any case, 2011 is likely to remain engraved in the history of the Arab world as the year when people started raising against their oppressive regimes.

But in other parts there is a backlash and the breezes have been met with counter reprisals of oppressive curbs to civil liberties, human rights and freedoms.

In a country notorious for its moribund civil society and oppressive state, St. Petersburg citizens have a habit of challenging the authorities in small, but significant ways.

Camara s test indeed, the test for most African rulers consists in protecting civilians and their property, in establishing law and order without oppressive measures, and in fighting corruption.

The state, in the long run, simply cannot direct entrepreneurs to lend, borrow, and invest investment capital will inevitably shrug when faced with oppressive manipulation of free markets.

This is because his actions, his irresponsibility in the use of what he calls humor, has affected lives, has reinforced oppressive stereotypes, has discouraged empathy and human solidarity.

In view of the oppressive and unprecedented abundance of problems with which Obama is confronted at home and abroad, he will certainly not be able to fulfill all expectations.

Its ever evolving principle is most evident with the fluctuation between oppressive actions (austerity measures, repressed identities and denied rights, etc.) and counter reactions (uprisings, revolts, protests, sacrifices, etc.).