Sometimes, perhaps, the vastness of sky was oppressive in the way wilderness weighed on McGregor's Canadians. |
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Not that the oppressive, undemocratic, abusive and illegal proposals are to be binned. |
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The heat is oppressive, and you realize it the moment you step through the watertight door onto the weather deck of any ship in the gulf. |
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He maintains he's a serious campaigner for free speech, which he says is curtailed by oppressive local by-laws. |
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Baldric wondered at this, for it seemed to him that the oppressive will that seemed to clench the north country had been suddenly banished. |
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Freak hailstorms will victimize the prairies while oppressive heat waves cook southern Ontario. |
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When Hetty gets the good news, she packs a rucksack full of books and heads for Wordsworth country to escape the oppressive atmosphere at home. |
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I think both Michael and I were pretty crushed by the oppressive response that the ideas canvassed in the Discussion paper received. |
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The argument was that the scheme is so oppressive and onerous because it infringes the Applicant's right to work and to respect for his privacy. |
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One gruesome scene is shot behind an oppressive red filter, visually suffocating the viewer. |
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The southern swamplands have the lowest rainfall but are humid and oppressive all year. |
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One week was spent trudging through snow and ice, the other trying to cope with supernaturally oppressive heat and humidity. |
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The course was as usual in superb condition but the oppressive heat drained the strength of the competitors and the scores reflected this. |
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The package has had to contend with sandstorms, muddy conditions and oppressive heat. |
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Some people love hot weather, but I find it oppressive and stifling and generally unpleasant. |
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Their grievances were oppressive and unfair taxation, heavy-handedness of the authorities, and lack of political representation. |
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Whatever oppressive tactics the authorities use, we should not let them stop us protesting and expressing our anger about their atrocities. |
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People take their future into their own hands and rebel against an oppressive authority. |
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I hated the unjust, oppressive system so, in my twenties, I fled the country illegally to seek truth and freedom in the West. |
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Common symptoms are pain, an oppressive feeling behind the eye, a gritty sensation in the eye, double vision, and photophobia. |
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Your great State has never experienced the misfortune of being occupied, and Australians never had to flee from an oppressive dictatorship. |
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It's ironic that so many people use a patriarchal and racist ideology to critique what they think is an engine of oppressive authority. |
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I could give you hundreds of examples of local communities that have been just as oppressive and unjust as nation states. |
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They found government harsh and oppressive, complaining of the disparities between the rich and poor. |
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Does the coercive and oppressive treatment of weaving children differ only by degree from the treatment of all carpet weavers? |
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If you need to escape an oppressive regime, can you afford to advertise that fact by filling out an asylum claim in the street? |
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The course, as always, was immaculately presented and the weather was oppressive on the first day and overcast for the second round. |
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They are willing to espouse the most oppressive dictatorship on earth just to be different! |
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We would be tragic heroes, battling the unjustness of an oppressive society. |
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If they are made to work, and are chastised, but stinted of their food, such treatment is oppressive, and saps their strength. |
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In many cases oppressive authorities actively prevent normal migration processing from occurring. |
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It is no longer possible for the surrounding dictatorships to defend their oppressive ways as the immutable order of things. |
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Unless supplemented and constrained by minority rights, state nation-building is likely to be oppressive and unjust. |
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The building radiated an oppressive atmosphere, loaded with the anguish of men and women facing death. |
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The air was hot, stale and oppressive, the sea as flat and lifeless as some dead thing. |
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Predictably, club owners and ravers responded with a pressure campaign of their own, accusing city hall of being oppressive and anti-youth. |
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However, in another few seconds, they were silent again and the oppressive atmosphere returned. |
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David Parry, conducting, takes the score slowly, generating an atmosphere of oppressive malignancy. |
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Composed shortly after The Turn of the Screw, the Canticle shares that opera's claustrophobic, oppressive atmosphere. |
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The feeling that we have to sort it all out in our minds and make judgments about it can be quite oppressive. |
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Critics and audiences alike reviled it for its oppressive atmosphere and the direction in which it took the Alien franchise. |
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Accordingly, it is said it would be oppressive to extradite the applicant to France. |
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Reductionist science is considered bad science with politically oppressive implications. |
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It is so typical of our western mindset to seek to impose on ethnic minorities our own oppressive cultural norms. |
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Nkosi explained that Sisulu was the invisible power behind Mandela's successful defiance of the oppressive apartheid regime. |
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My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. |
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And then the United States supported various oppressive regimes throughout the region. |
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His wife secretly taught their four daughters during the Taliban's oppressive reign, a time when girls were denied an education. |
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Artistic approach to the style has been undergoing modern transformation, emerging out from under the oppressive yoke of postmodernist theory. |
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This is a time full of lessons for those who day to day languish under the oppressive yoke of capitalism. |
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It is presumptuous and oppressive to suggest that other cultures want the liberties we take for granted, their argument runs. |
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We had a brief reprieve earlier this week from the oppressive heat of the Washington summer, but the last couple days have been dangerously hot. |
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It was a calculated response to the fears of an oppressive gendarmerie which had motivated so much resistance to the force. |
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It does seem to have freshened things up a little but it's still going to be a really oppressive day in the office. |
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Would you be happy knowing your cash could effectively be funding businesses that provide armaments for oppressive regimes? |
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The band make loud, dark, oddly country music that suits the oppressive venue to a tee. |
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However the price that had to be paid, was a strict and oppressive rule that controlled even the most trivial things of everyday's life. |
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The asphalt was dark and slightly shiny in the sun, as if the oppressive heat was melting the tar within the road. |
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His oppressive office compelled the countrymen to bring their articles to market. |
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Society, its social forces, are intrinsically conservative, oppressive, authoritarian. |
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As stated earlier, much of the debt was contracted by undemocratic governments and oppressive regimes. |
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The salty tang hung in the air, making the atmosphere seem oppressive and dangerous. |
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We could not deliver ourselves from the corrupt and oppressive system of taxation. |
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But, how could this be done without revisiting the World War I experience of oppressive intolerance? |
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The heat was beginning, to be oppressive, but as we got closer to the river, the fields became more and more verdant. |
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When I was young, and I have to add, foolish, I considered the law an oppressive force, and judges to be confused out-of-touch old farts. |
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To some it's the home of an oppressive thought police bent on turning workers into politically correct dullards. |
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The occasional heavy downpour keeps the oppressive humidity at bay, and lessens the sense that we're walking through a steam room. |
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Apartheid enforced the oppressive dominance of a white European elite through segregation along purely racial lines. |
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Women under oppressive family conditions cannot fully realize their potential and experience self-actualization. |
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If the reader is intolerant, hateful, or oppressive, so will be the interpretation of the text. |
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The oppressive weather we've had this past week makes me want to sleep all day. |
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For some, Christmas is an oppressive reminder that mercantilism and materialism have replaced Christ as the heart of Christmas. |
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If we can help and inspire other people to see that you don't have to torture people, you don't have to have oppressive regimes. |
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The cities are filled with people who have fled an oppressive incestuousness they felt in rural life. |
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The collecting itch urged Smith further and further afield, helped along by Houston's oppressive summer weather. |
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His footfalls were hidden under the oppressive bang of gunfire and bullets trailed him like a shadow. |
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In the oppressive confines of the chicken yard, one chicken has a vision for bettering their lot in life. |
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The sun rose, becoming oppressive as we traveled through the chain of islands. |
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Beneath the hot and sticky oppressive atmosphere of the venue, Jon pushed his way past the bobbing bodies toward the bar. |
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In hip-hop music, lyricists educate young audiences by performing songs that challenge oppressive ideas. |
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I think it's been a bit of a misquote because I've never thought of my upbringing as being oppressive in any way. |
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It short-sightedly looks to the European Central Bank to emancipate it from oppressive regulation. |
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The story plays out against a gritty, hyperreal New York backdrop that seems to be drenched in a perpetually oppressive, insipid drizzle. |
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It acknowledges darkness, as well as the historic bookends of oppressive monarchy and violent fascism. |
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I mean, Mondays you have just started the oppressive boredom, so you have a lot to talk about. |
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It would mean a re-evaluation of some of their most cherished beliefs about the oppressive nature of the traditional, patriarchal family. |
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The courtyard was completely silent, as it had been earlier, but now the silence seemed oppressive, suffocating. |
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Although the gate looks overdecorated, there's nothing oppressive about it, perhaps because of its pleasing proportions. |
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Yesterday these tunnels and caverns had seemed wonderful, but now the walls felt stifling and oppressive. |
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The heat is not too oppressive, because of the breezes that sigh in from the cool, sparkling Atlantic waters of Table Bay. |
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On a summer evening, a swab of jasmine or khus lifts your spirits in the oppressive heat of Northern India. |
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There is very little dialogue in the film, furthering the, at times, oppressive silence weighing upon the viewer. |
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Throw out the rascals speaks the more dramatically after decades of unchosen and oppressive regimes. |
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The first category is oppressive, arbitrary or unconstitutional action by the servants of the government. |
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She works in the glove department of Saks Fifth Avenue, returning home to a modest apartment, a cat, a sketch pad and her oppressive loneliness. |
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Those living under an oppressive regime may have good reason to seek this level of online privacy. |
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When Dan Parks dropped a goal for a 12-6 lead in the 57th minute, an already seething atmosphere became oppressive. |
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And in one very long day, these characters are about to enter the autumn of their lives with an oppressive weight on their shoulders. |
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You want to come stay in Tel Aviv one of these days, now that's oppressive weather. |
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Fog, wet and oppressive, like gauze on a camera lens, softens edges off in the distance. |
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His city is relentlessly sleazy and oppressive, and its cops apparently exist only to crack open the heads of innocent bystanders. |
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His life seems set towards one of idyllic village life and oppressive bondage to his masters. |
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One can easily imagine the oppressive heat being dispelled by a sudden smattering of rain, as an iron smoothes a wrinkled cloth. |
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He has concluded that it would not be wrong, unjust or oppressive to do so. |
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Summer's spiritual hardships are manifest through the oppressive summer heat. |
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Also, one has to brave crowds of tourists, loud music and a generally oppressive high-tech atmosphere to get to the classical section. |
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It was as if we slept from Friday to Monday and dreamed an oppressive, unsearchably significant dream. |
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Wig also found that, on top of the normal pressure of call center work, the atmosphere was very oppressive. |
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As the autonomy of the local church kicks in, oppressive views of women in diaconal roles will increasingly get kicked out. |
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When oppressive becomes the conflict between reason and faith, let me broad-mindedly see my way clear to accomplish what I seek. |
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The court in the case cited relied upon the recognised power of judicial tribunals to prevent an oppressive exercise of the municipal ordinance power. |
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And that oppressive atmosphere is reinforced even by absence. |
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This initiative highlights activists from Cuba to China, who use satire to poke fun at their blundering and oppressive regimes. |
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Thus we see evil as being inextricably linked to moral absolutism, by the route of religion, which excludes understanding and is ultimately oppressive. |
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Given these constraints, as oppressive as the white tie and collar studs the men joylessly wear, the actors give focused, intelligent performances. |
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He glanced back at Vincent, who was puffing and wheezing from the walk down the tunnel under the burden of ammunition, weapons and the oppressive heat of his coat. |
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I used to think that all women, like most men, were kept down by the evil capitalists who controlled the country, but I never saw myself as carrying this oppressive gene. |
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In the month following the uprising, the political opposition wrung more concessions from the oppressive regime than they had in the previous 50 years. |
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Has the United States supported oppressive regimes in the region? |
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These reforms were intended to free the common man to pursue business opportunities without the oppressive yoke of high interest rates or excessive rents. |
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Shortly after that, the first currents of liberation theology emerged in Latin America and the U.S., making neo-orthodoxy seem stuffy, provincial and oppressive. |
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That means that most of its policies are not only socially reactionary and oppressive, but flagrantly misogynistic as well. |
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In my part of the country, the oppressive days of late summer are now past, and the first hint of the longed-for winter rains have teased us by speckling the dusty ground. |
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Towards the end of the 19th century, Latvia emerged as a political entity in its own right, despite the unpopular and oppressive process of Russification. |
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This paradox arises either through the blocking of memory, or under oppressive regimes through torture and fear of the consequences of testifying. |
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From my experience, hostility coming from the Left is a direct response to the sanctimonious, oppressive dogma and bigotry that emanates from the political Right. |
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In a desperate attempt to rescue her and flee oppressive barrio life, Octavio offers up his Rottweiler to the barbarous world of back alley dogfights. |
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In other words, markets were impersonal, but that was good, because sometimes personal ties were cruel and oppressive. |
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It is time we cast off the shackles of this oppressive existence and let liberty, personal responsibility and social tolerance flourish in New Zealand. |
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Gina was putting on a diplomatic front, but when it came down to it she had him by the short and curlies til Angel got himself out from under the mob's oppressive thumb. |
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Students, staff, and faculty of the schools and colleges of the have been shut out of learning and conducting research by the oppressive military siege. |
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Demographic changes are making that community less dogmatic, even through the Castro regime remains an oppressive dictatorship. |
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And of course there is the truly bad touch that is humiliating, oppressive and often painful. |
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At this point the hot, oppressive cloud-cover was beginning to part, and the moon was rising high above the desert. |
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Starting today, an Internet user in an oppressive country can swap online identities with someone in the West. |
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On that blood-soaked continent, the reigning monarchs and other despotic rulers thought up an ingenious system to perpetuate their oppressive systems of government. |
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No, this won't be a naval skirmish with some oppressive foreign dictator. |
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He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime. |
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Having sloughed the oppressive confines of the mine, instinct takes over. |
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The representation of Silver as quiet and unresisting, however, suggests McCrumb's ambivalent attitude towards political resistance against an oppressive state. |
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As a newspaperwoman, she observed her neighbors at close range and acquired an intimate knowledge of the oppressive conditions that circumscribed their lives. |
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For the second time in the festival, the crowd broke into spontaneous cheers and applause as the village women stood up against the oppressive regime of their village. |
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When the heat is not oppressive, winds blow sand and dust in from the Sahara, blocking out the sun and carrying dreaded diseases, or rain squalls flood the city's open sewers. |
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Dolly and I had a grand siesta right through the oppressive heat of the afternoon, waking to find the early evening cooler and more pleasant altogether. |
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Be prepared for more oppressive heat during the next two months as the dry weather will likely continue before entering the transition to the rainy season. |
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But such was the oppressive humidity and heat of his last event, the Malaysian Open, that Dyson has now wisely decided not to take part in the Qatar event. |
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Examples of the oppressive and repressive treatment of women abound. |
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He threw out an estimate that perhaps two cents from every litre of gas we buy goes to support a dictatorship or other oppressive forms of government. |
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Women's home life was oppressive and harsh even among the better classes. |
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It may feel somewhat oppressive for those readers who don't mind a crazy wife in the attic but ultimately prefer to see intelligent love conquer all. |
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In fact, not a lot happens at all in the first book, it mostly just introduces the main characters and sets up the oppressive atmosphere of the castle. |
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Wentworth had a threateningly dark and oppressive atmosphere whereas I can honestly say I've been in scarier factory canteens than the one at Larkhall. |
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Many prisoners, suffocating under the oppressive heat, fainted. |
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All the Tests lasted a full five days and were attended by a sizeable crowd despite stifling security, oppressive weather and poor facilities at the venues. |
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We had left the oppressive flat humidity of Lima at dawn, rising through the low cloud that seemed to hang permanently over the city, as if entering a second sky. |
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It was stuffy and confined, muggy and stagnant, thick and oppressive. |
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For an hour and a half in the oppressive, dry 35 Celsius degree heat of the day we traveled across the valley and hiked up to the top of Graveyard pass. |
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In each religion we discover the interweaving of the sublime and the ridiculous, the liberatory and the oppressive, the radical and the conventional. |
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The song is a touching, acoustic-guitar driven meditation on poverty, in which the oppressive hopelessness of lower-class impoverishment is palpable. |
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The law should not pursue those allegedly guilty of minor, inadvertent or technical crimes decades ago, because to do so is disproportionate and oppressive. |
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He could be inspirational and caring, but also oppressive and indiscreet. |
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But the the most compelling environmental feat, on the mostly open stage, is her invocation of the oppressive and threatening mood that hangs over even moments of playfulness. |
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That would be formalism, which is either arid or else, in some kind of complicated, sinister, paranoid way, connected to the oppressive operations of a mysterious power group. |
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At its most extreme, it involved a guerrilla strategy of selectively assassinating particularly gung-ho or oppressive officers through the use of fragmentation bombs. |
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Like Karl Marx, freethinkers regarded religion as oppressive. |
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In the oppressive heat I could taste the nauseating fumes of paraffin. |
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They crept out of the city under the oppressive darkness, and were on the slave roads once more by the time the sun burned through the dry clouds and gilded the plains. |
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By 1326, Edward's deposition in favour of his namesake son and heir seemed the only alternative to a mean, oppressive, and unsuccessful regime that engendered civil strife. |
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She took note of the open plan bars and restaurants, the oppressive fluorescent lights and the doddering passengers wandering aimlessly trying to kill time. |
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Miss Dobbin submitted that the question for this court is whether, by reason of the passage of time, it would be unjust or oppressive to extradite the appellant. |
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Despite this, Poland was at the time considered to be one of the least oppressive states of the Soviet Bloc. |
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Slavery in colonial America was very oppressive, as it passed from generation to generation, and slaves had no legal rights. |
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Tone is close and immediate, but never oppressive, and Lewis probes thoughtfully and grippingly into this undeniable masterwork. |
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A parade of speakers ridiculed, demonized and insulted anyone who dares to take issue with the Religious Right's oppressive goals. |
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He exposed the desolate inhumanity of their oppressive, centralised state and he did so from the perspective of democratic socialism. |
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Two prosecutions for a single false statement in a brochure is not oppressive. |
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People smuggling can be used to rescue a person from oppressive circumstances. |
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He is not a peasant but a yeoman, and his tales make no mention of the complaints of the peasants, such as oppressive taxes. |
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Under Musharraf, the military was seen as meddlesome and oppressive force. |
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Actually such visits with dissidents are common in countries that are seen as oppressive and unfree. |
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Charlotte Haze is spared Quilty's fate because she is, from the beginning, not a mirage but an oppressive, dull, untransfigurable reality. |
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The Garden is surrounded by a wall that prevents you seeing out of it, so the whole effect is isolated, claustrophobic and extremely oppressive. |
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The silence between them was prickly and oppressive, like the humid forebirth of a thunderstorm. |
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This region suffers from oppressive heat in the summer months. |
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Those that paint the night transformed the oppressive grey, cement blocks just hours after it was built into a cheerful, mocking smiley face. |
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And if so, would they recontextualize and reflect on the project by challenging oppressive systems and practices? |
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The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive. |
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States with capitalistic economic systems have thrived under political regimes deemed to be authoritarian or oppressive. |
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Political songs were written about him, complaining about his failure in war and his oppressive government. |
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Until recently, several East African countries were riven with political coups, ethnic violence and oppressive dictators. |
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Today, the term Indies might be considered pejorative, patronizing and oppressive by some. |
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Those who oppose global governance typically do so on objections that the idea is unfeasible, inevitably oppressive, or simply unnecessary. |
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Theodore was an iconodule monk at the time when both monasticism and image veneration were often under oppressive imperial scrutiny. |
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About the orphaned children, the Quran forbids harsh and oppressive treatment to them while urging kindness and justice towards them. |
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Along with this passion for naturalism, they shared a marked distaste for the Edinburgh oriented Scottish art establishment, which they viewed as oppressive. |
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If governments overact and become oppressive, the terrorists will have won, for their theory is that repression will eventually lead to revolution. |
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These hijab rules for dressing cause tensions, concerning particularly Muslims living in Western countries, where restrictions are considered both sexist and oppressive. |
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The function of a grand jury is to accuse persons who may be guilty of an offense, but the institution is also a shield against unfounded and oppressive prosecution. |
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Contemporary accounts of his time there describe it as happy except that he apparently found the summer heat oppressive and liked to escape from it to Cambridge. |
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The Saudeleur centralized form of absolute rule is characterized in Pohnpeian legend as becoming increasingly oppressive over several generations. |
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The dark side of his censorial power involved a restriction in freedom of speech, and an increasingly oppressive attitude toward the Roman Senate. |
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Moreover, in the context of the cold war Arminius became a symbol for socialism, with Rome being a symbol for the capitalist United States as an oppressive empire. |
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The oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company. |
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Gruffydd was given an appanage in Meirionnydd and Ardudwy but his rule was said to be oppressive, and in 1221 Llywelyn stripped him of these territories. |
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Longley points out that 'to characterise Irish nationalism as archetypally female both gives it a mythic pedigree and exonerates it from aggressive and oppressive intent. |
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But the Irish chiefs became increasingly alienated by the oppressive measures of the English government, and began openly rebelling against the crown. |
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Nursing educational systems, far from embodying new emancipatory models, are often disappointing replicas of oppressive and hierarchical organisations. |
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Advocates worry that those who internalize the oppressive group's disvaluing of their lives may come to regard themselves as a burden when they need medical care. |
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Part I proposes an indigenous feminist spiritual anthropology and practices that can heal the mind-body split and decolonize one's sense of self from oppressive systems. |
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The smallness of the country, in which everyone knows everyone, admittedly is oppressive and tends to foster the conformism that discourages openness and tolerance. |
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The trade-union movement in Brazil had a similar effect, helping to end 21 years of oppressive military rule and usher in 15 years of representative government. |
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