| 词汇 | example_english_oppressive |
| 释义 | Examples of oppressiveThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. In the villages, however, the regime run by these administrators and chiefs appeared neglectful, capriciously oppressive and deeply corrupt. The perspective of rational egoism proves highly useful for criticizing oppressive commitments. Nonetheless, his intent was to control and appease the oppressive thoughts of death without inviting death itself. In short, it was a time of political polarization, caused above all by arbitrary, oppressive military rule. With the unquestioned acceptance of the importance of environment comes the oppressive ideas of continuous monitoring, measurement, certification, control and surveillance. Secondly, they all have for too long been connected with historical culture, in its various oppressive phases, and their use inevitably evokes the old cultures. At this time, correct and polite usage is advoother side, the oppressive spread of a canting hypcated, and the idea of an academy is popular. The latter role provided a refuge from, as well as a base for, revolt against the party's inherent tendencies towards oppressive regimentation of its membership. Incorporating gender gauges other risks, such as increased exposure to violence and oppressive behavioral expectations. I quite agree that the reformist movement was too intrusive and oppressive for commoners to accept with pleasure. The same applied to women who wished to physically escape oppressive fathers and husbands. Most people who approach this operatic leviathan via recordings find it an oppressive bore. Here the topic of the body is identified with a reactionary and oppressive discourse, one that individualises and demeans disabled people. Faced with this oppressive re-catholization they urged a return to classic protestant convictions, as they understood them. Personal responsibility enters the picture only fleetingly, in the form of recriminations against oppressive political and social agents. While the lairds acknowledged no master, foreign or domestic, they also refused to recognize legal constraints, and exercised an oppressive tyranny over their inferiors. Many of the activists had left-wing ideologies and saw the sardars as divisive, oppressive agents of outside interests. They fluctuated wildly without apparent cause or reason, and could also be very costly, and as such were probably seen as oppressive. Combined with insatiability this feature can make moral demands seem oppressive for those who have conflicting goals. Administrative control enabled the institutions to exert strict, even oppressive, authority, which could provoke resistance. In fact, he denounced those intellectuals who turned themselves into servants of a monarchy and thereby aided and abetted an oppressive social and political order. Ageordering from their perspective is oppressive, something to be resisted. There is environmental air quality, a non-oppressive environment, environmental sensitivity and of our social climate in general. In the first stage, all the workers had gone on strike demanding the dismissal of two oppressive jamadars and asking for a wage raise. Syndicalist organisations, on the one hand, now increasingly confronted the power of oppressive authoritarian states. Means of resistance to oppressive discourses are found in the blind spots or contradictions of the discourses themselves. Unfortunately, many educators and school administrators support these oppressive social attitudes. Nevertheless, cross-wearing became a very effective oppressive penance. The love is not oppressive, not too demanding. However, depending upon the material realities of the subject, this bodily display may or may not be oppressive. Let us also stipulate that she was brought up to accept subservience in a way that we would regard as oppressive. If so, they do indeed seem to reinforce the notion of the convent as simply an oppressive control on women's sexuality. Our own institutions reflected this concern with the oppressive consequences of centralized political power. In this way, false narratives are preserved and the secrecy with which oppressive regimes operate protected. I had difficulty seeing major differences between him, other pre-1850 bosses and the supposedly more oppressive post-1850 bosses. The joint family was ruptured and women were increasingly forced to live in usually oppressive households, without their husbands. There are no guarantees that the notions of civic virtues and the purposes that emerge from political debates invoking such traditions will not be oppressive. They made these racially oppressive policies seem rational, sensible and normal. An oppressive regime must, therefore, naturalize the condition of its disenfranchised members if it wishes to avoid being overthrown. Such a condition is oppressive for women, but not in conventionally "patriarchal" terms, wherein power is held or exercised by men. Martial law and press censorship were the twin pillars of an oppressive regime. While it might be tempting to see this as the caution of public servants in an oppressive regime or the heavy hand of censorship, that would be misleading. In response, some advocates of qualitative methods have attacked the very use of quantitative methods, particularly survey methods, as atomizing of social reality and politically oppressive. An incisive and thoughtful chapter on culture, leisure and the media explores the oppressive and exclusory qualities of a society contoured by the values of a non-disabled majority population. Also, the authors' concern to neutralise the oppressive implications of neo-liberal ' generational equity ' debates may have led them to undervalue the need for a radical political economy of generations. The historiography has tended to portray women as having two main options : resigning themselves to increasingly oppressive male rule, or rejecting marriage and male control entirely. The former refers to people's conformism within an oppressive political system, while the latter refers to their unvoiced criticism and resistance. In order for an economically oppressive regime to maintain political control, disenfranchised members of society cannot be allowed to perceive their condition as artificial or changeable. The development of social welfare benefits barely alleviated oppressive working conditions and low wages, which drove many common laborers and skilled workers away from the arsenals. In this light, the human world is not simply a stockpile of equally oppressive discourses, such that escape from one simply means entry into another equally oppressive. Such critique questions and delimits the validity of received views on knowledge, value, social structure, and emotional life, and often tends to construe them as deceitful or oppressive. Needless to say, in shopping, women were actually not powerful at all, but were recapitulating and reinforcing an oppressive gendered division of labor and an oppressive patriarchal-capitalist system. Conversely, disability activists and writers who have promoted a social model of disability have seen the language of and the policy focus upon ' care ' as oppressive and objectifying. In addition, some started to wonder whether women of their own generation or their parents' generation might not have been forced to stay in very unhappy, even oppressive, marriages. The response category, males are very privileged, is singled out to measure the degree of discriminatory and the oppressive nature of trust in terms of gender. There you have almost free land and a protective system so oppressive that the agriculturist is now almost rising in revolt against it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think any of us would have thought in advance that there was anything inherently unreasonable or oppressive about the agreement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one starts to erect an oppressive edifice on the basis of the guidelines, one is building upon unsure and unsatisfactory foundations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any different practice would be oppressive and perpetuate uncertainty on the part of those who have become suspects. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We see no need whatever for this further layer of oppressive legislation on top of the considerable burden already placed on local authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whatever that means, it is an oppressive way of dealing with the subject. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even allowing for that premise, there can be no case for further oppressive machinery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The motion refers to the "devastating and oppressive effect on family life". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are worried about its essentially bureaucratic nature; its impersonality and scale; its suffocating, clodhopping regulation; its oppressive complexity; and its uniformising and centralising tendencies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they were oppressive or capricious, they could be immediately annulled by a court. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the same time, of course, we sometimes approve and back freedom struggles against oppressive totalitarian regimes elsewhere. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I thoroughly agree with what they said about opposition to tyrannical and oppressive regimes in other parts of the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As a starting point, it is very important to recognise that not all prison-made goods are the product of oppressive or cruel practices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The law has always been anxious to ensure that damages do not become oppressive—hence the concept of foreseeability as the test in damages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should have thought that that was a very oppressive provision to insert. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the circumstances in which the right to exemplary damages may remain is where there has been oppressive action by a government servant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not legislating for some oppressive action. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The level of debt is significant and oppressive and it does represent a tax on learning. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One cannot get a much better principle than that: protecting the citizen from unfair and oppressive prosecution. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it were introduced, it would be oppressive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There might be a possibility that a local authority might issue what would seem to be an oppressive enforcement notice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As was pointed out in the previous debate, other countries do not take this oppressive action. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To have one law for the lion and for the ox is oppressive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I repeat that, although this is cast for oppressive reasons into a civil mould, let us remember how harsh it is. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it is left in, it is undoubtedly oppressive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The ombudsman is now employed to pass a judgment on behaviour which fits the rules even if the rules are oppressive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all recognise the need to protect vulnerable leaseholders from oppressive behaviour by unscrupulous landlords and from threats and bullying. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Having created a viciously oppressive system of laws and rules, the government has found the right sort of people to operate it. People's agents extend this concern for individuals to a more generalised opposition to injustice and oppressive bureaucracy. The income tax - 'the oppressive and inquisitorial tax' to contemporaries - was repealed with the peace. To announce that one idea is the highest guiding principle, and others are oppressive and wrong, potentially gives rise to other forms of oppression. She wrote about oppressive domesticity during an era that advocated social progress, yet largely refused to grant women the privileges of this progress. In a nationalised bank, by contrast, he would have had to put up with the oppressive bureaucratic hierarchy. Not surprisingly, the enterprise was seen by the local inhabitants as extremely oppressive. The poem has enduring significance because of its comment on the "transhistorical" nature of oppressive institutions. The monarchy was ever more widely perceived as an oppressive, obsolescent institution which failed to correspond to the country's needs. As there is no musical form more oppressive than the passacaglia, so there is no clearer form of musical mimicry than canon. The times were just not right for accepting that men under dramatically oppressive conditions would engage in such practices. The sovereignty the state could exercise, at an oceanic distance, was of necessity ill-informed, incomplete, and oppressive. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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