Oppressive in a sentence

The fact is the pandemic has made an already oppressive education system even more oppressive,” said Brooks of New Haven.

Without reinvestment, we can work tirelessly to tear down an oppressive system only to have the void filled by something else equally oppressive.

We have to make sure that our exchanges do not reproduce oppressive power dynamics, but every challenge is not oppressive.

He sees the Brazilian government as an example of an oppressive state using theatre to propagate its oppressive system.

After centuries of oppressive rule, the demon God Adyr has been defeated, but the tides are turning once again as Adyr’s resurrection looms on the horizon.

But half of the Guyanese population scrap around to make ends meet, with an oppressive oil contract, and a government seeking to silence them for objecting to its provisions and conditions.

But in between is an oppressive slog.

But perhaps the worst environment for teachers and students is in schools led by avaricious and oppressive school administrators who act like they are the present-day equivalent of ancient Roman centurions or the Spanish colonizers’ guardia sibil.

Crucially, only 36 overs had been bowled, and with the heat getting more oppressive, a strong partnership after the break could all but put Warrandyte out of the game.

From abhorrently oppressive systems, like redlining, to more subtly problematic customs, such as cultural taboos surrounding menstruation, history has no shortage of examples proving that just because something has endured does not mean it is correct.

From well off in Tehran to dirt poor in Mormon land, which was just as oppressive to him as living under the mullahs.

Given this, they contend that providing examples of people with ambiguous sexual anatomy (i.e., “intersex” conditions) not only disproves the sex binary but also demonstrates that biological sex is a meaningless and even oppressive categorization scheme.

He came across as powerful and commanding but not in an oppressive way.

He is not just aware of their oppressive influence, but ready to spurn companionship with them in this election and vote his conscience.

However, his ideas have also been heavily criticized by many, who argue that they are unrealistic, impractical, and have led to the establishment of oppressive and authoritarian governments in countries such as the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba.

Hugo was the first to break free from their father’s oppressive grip, followed by Chadwick, who sought refuge in Los Angeles, hoping for a fresh start.

I felt that, eventually, I don’t have no way out of this lifestyle that was imposed upon me in these oppressive conditions.

In a political and social climate created amidst oppressive structures, academic institutions need to be aware of the subliminal messages they are sending to the student body and the culture that they are upholding.

In Boston, Marlene enlists smuggler Joel (Pedro Pascal) to escort teen Ellie (Bella Ramsey) -- who might be the key to a cure -- out of an oppressive quarantine zone and across the United States to a research facility.

In fact, because of their oppressive experience of the British colonial soldiers, there was a deep distrust of the regular Army as the clause in the Pennsylvania Constitution shows.