| And then the United States supported various oppressive regimes throughout the region. |
| If you need to escape an oppressive regime, can you afford to advertise that fact by filling out an asylum claim in the street? |
| Reductionist science is considered bad science with politically oppressive implications. |
| The air was hot, stale and oppressive, the sea as flat and lifeless as some dead thing. |
| Predictably, club owners and ravers responded with a pressure campaign of their own, accusing city hall of being oppressive and anti-youth. |
| His wife secretly taught their four daughters during the Taliban's oppressive reign, a time when girls were denied an education. |
