Bryant," she says, "we have oppressive laws to go with our oppressive heat.
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The world of The Handmaid's Tale is oppressive, even if it doesn't look oppressive.
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Technologies that are meant to give us unprecedented freedom may very well bolster the most oppressive leaders and propaganda; technologies that feel oppressive may very well protect us.
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We see the term used increasingly in conjunction with international campaigns in support of communities that are resisting either oppressive governments, or the oppressive actions of their own governments upon others.
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After all, Sam's voice is louder than ever precisely because she could do what Silvio was too afraid to attempt in the first place: telling oppressive white people they're oppressive white people.
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In the oppressive heat south of the Mexican border, the only thing that tastes better than ice-cold, fizzy cola is freedom—freedom from the shackles of oppressive government taxes on consumer goods.
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It's oppressive, draconian, and an infringement of women's reproductive rights.
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But what does this harrowing, oppressive drama really bring us?
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Diet culture is really didactic and can feel really oppressive.
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Even in the dead of winter, Brazil's heat is oppressive.
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Some oppressive human has locked him inside for some reason.
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For dissidents in oppressive regimes, government hacking can be consequential.
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Even oppressive governments can sometimes be shamed into behaving better.
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Of course, straight lines can, equally, be oppressive and antiseptic.
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At times, Pink's relentless interiority is altogether oppressive to read.
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Too often, aggressive policing began to feel like oppressive policing.
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"Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever," Trump wrote, quoting his speech.
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And the oppressive heat can cause people to feel agitated.
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Every area felt distinct and, in their own way, oppressive.
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As an oppressive fog enshrouded us, things became slightly eerie.
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Often, the problem is not an oppressive government at all.
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She found gender norms around clothing both oppressive and confusing.
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Twitter executives quickly cowed before the oppressive power of caste.
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Oppressive, totalitarian regimes are not noted for flexibility or responsiveness.
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But they can also switch into a psychologically oppressive force.
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Oppressive, bullying, and abusive regimes traffic in isolating their victims.
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Silencing critics In this oppressive climate, dissent is not tolerated.
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"This oppressive state is a macho rapist," the chant goes.
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The novel abounds with satirical slights documenting oppressive British behavior.
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The match lasted 2 hours 47 minutes in oppressive humidity.
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Is one type of oppressive regime better than the other?
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He called it the planet's "most tyrannical and oppressive regime".
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The relationship with authority is different, less oppressive in Australia.
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Many Kashmiris see India as an oppressive and foreign ruler.
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Many Kashmiris see India as an oppressive and foreign ruler.
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Here the oppressive state mechanism did not tolerate humanitarian solidarity.
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Certainly the historical associations have been especially oppressive to women.
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It's a dark, oppressive film that doesn't seem to understand why it's so dark and oppressive, and after a massive opening weekend, it sank at the box office (it never sat particularly well with critics).
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Many are violent as well as poor, or have oppressive governments.
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"History has proved that no oppressive regime lasts forever," he said.
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She was on the front lines of protests against oppressive policing.
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Don't vote for politicians who support oppressive policies and agendas. 28.
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Later she described Sister Jane as an oppressive and abusive figure.
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I have a former friend who thinks that homeownership is oppressive.
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And, of course, that's an oppressive and hard way to live.
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You pledged to reduce the size of this oppressive federal government.
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Society stifles their talent with its oppressive structures and tedious demands.
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It has misruled Gaza ever since, proving corrupt, oppressive and incompetent.
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Go deeper: NYPD: Actions at Stonewall Riots were "discriminatory and oppressive"
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Kelly was out there perpetuating oppressive power dynamics on the field.
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It is used by whistle-blowers or people in oppressive countries.
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The oppressive heat during a Sydney summer really made this difficult.
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Members of both groups looked glum, sweating under the oppressive heat.
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Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq was despotic, oppressive, criminal and worse.
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"They share these oppressive views and values," Trump said of Afghans.
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Kazakh society remains deeply conservative and, for some minority groups, oppressive.
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It was a strong breach of the oppressive contract of niceness.
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And I don't want to conform to something that feels oppressive.
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It's already a sign of the oppressive system we live under.
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But it's the cost of telling stories in an oppressive society.
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"It doesn't feel as oppressive as it used to," he said.
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The Iranian people have suffered long enough under an oppressive regime.
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The sexual conservatism of their approach can become oppressive to women.
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"The oppressive state is a male rapist," the red wave sings.
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The day ahead started to take oppressive shape in his chest.
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"It was so big that it was oppressive," Ms. Dean said.
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Fan's paradoxical artworks also subvert the rationality of oppressive social structures.
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Some of us are coming from oppressive places that are very homophobic.
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But observers say it's an oppressive place that violates basic human rights.
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And his business dealings likely helped some oppressive leaders stay in power.
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Ryan termed Obama's actions "efforts to appease the oppressive regime" in Cuba.
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In 2018, the earlier Barbie models look like oppressive versions of femininity.
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Who thought any oppressive system in human history was a good idea?
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But Pullman's novels go beyond the broad strokes of an oppressive government.
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That is what Gilead does, because that is what oppressive dictatorships do.
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It's going to unshackle us from the oppressive dungeon of fiat currency!
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Shooting in Heathrow proved next to impossible under the oppressive airport lights.
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But in reality the image of an oppressive computer gets AI wrong.
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France said the elections were a "sham" organized by "an oppressive regime".
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The operation took 15 days, working through oppressive heat and heavy downpours.
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Pence has a history of supporting oppressive policies against the LGBTQ community.
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McLean's team at the time was defined by his impressively oppressive onslaught.
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"This oppressive regime must be held accountable for its actions," Paul added.
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Thirty years after Tiananmen Square, Communist China is more oppressive than ever.
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Relationships with oppressive governments could also hurt Washington in the long run.
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Patterns of oppression can be held in place only by oppressive people.
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Mueller's hidden hand is one of the most oppressive forces in Washington.
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I'm against people being in oppressive situations or forced to do anything.
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Have his experiences under an oppressive structure changed him as a person?
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But the country is still considered to be heavily oppressive toward women.
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The writings were scholarly, but not in a way that was oppressive.
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The message was clear: These restrictions are oppressive, particularly for minority voters.
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Around the world, nonviolent civil resistance has toppled dictators and oppressive regimes.
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Others, though, argued that the book helped shatter oppressive, exclusionary Hollywood myths.
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All over the world, those living under oppressive regimes look to us.
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The oppressed learn from their oppressors; Brutus's language can be oppressive, too.
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In the oppressive humidity, I struggle to recover from the gargantuan effort.
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But Facebook users are not suffering under the yoke of oppressive masters.
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Mr. Jammeh's oppressive rule prompted thousands of Gambians to flee the country.
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It was so oppressive, particularly when you factor in the AIDS epidemic.
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What marks one identity quest as liberationist and the other as oppressive?
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Maybe you think of revolutionaries, deploying broadcasts to subvert an oppressive regime.
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That's just not genuine at all to anyone, and that's completely oppressive.
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D.C.'s workforce — employers and businesses alike — lose under oppressive scheduling mandates.
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According to Pew, 99% of people in Afghanistan support oppressive Sharia Law.
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More than 2 million desperate Venezuelans have fled Maduro's oppressive rule since 2015.
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Sometimes it becomes oppressive — the history, the choking familiarity, the endlessly repeated fights.
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The prison labor of today is rooted in this brutal and oppressive history.
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Chang seemed content and almost relieved to be free of an oppressive burden.
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However, the soldiers who followed them have set up a new, oppressive regime.
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Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as witch sisters fighting back against oppressive men?
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This said, I found one tendency in the exhibition inescapable, and, ultimately, oppressive.
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The first five episodes are marked by oppressive dourness, with precious little relief.
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Ms Haste thinks she took the only way out of an oppressive marriage.
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This isn't to make American Honey sound oppressive or, perhaps worse, poverty porn.
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Spend your FUN money on pins instead of supporting oppressive South American regimes!
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Silence only favors the oppressive, and I am tired of keeping myself down.
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The heat in Philly—like nearly everything else in this city—is oppressive.
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" "I was living under the fog of this oppressive depression and nothing mattered.
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To me that's really not useful, and for some people it's actually oppressive.
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Or did we trade one seemingly oppressive system for a completely different one?
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A politician from Sadr's movement condemned the use of live ammunition as "oppressive".
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Oppressive degrees of rigor at other schools in the network occasionally provoke resistance.
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Georgia flipped from having the nation's 17th to 11th least oppressive tax burden.
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By day, he wanders around under an oppressive sun with a hundred animals.
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"Carol" is a gorgeous romantic drama about two women in an oppressive era.
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" The lawsuit alleges that the singer's actions were "willful, wanton, malicious and oppressive.
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For non-elites, life is equally oppressive but includes far worse physical labor.
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Please don't tell me about oppressive cultures in which women have no voice.
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But what happens when that combo starts to feel oppressive in its sameness?
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Americans have preconceptions of what North Korea is like — militant, reclusive, and oppressive.
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Being a young woman, I face oppressive economic, social and political realities daily.
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Manhood fell on him as a great responsibility and a foreign, oppressive inheritance.
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This would require negotiations with the Taliban, the world's most oppressive Muslim regime.
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They saw the shah's oppressive policies as the bitter fruit of American influence.
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But the oppressive heat on this occasion could not stifle Mr. Cox's exhilaration.
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Yet despite being a little oppressive, Björk Digital has its eerily pioneering moments.
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It means continually discarding bad habits, toxic relationships, oppressive thought cycles and stress.
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It can feel oppressive, at times — "like a prison," one person told me.
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We mean this as encouragement, but Seneca would say it is secretly oppressive.
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So what's so oppressive about a background check that is free for voters?
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The almost complete shutdown imposed over the weekend sets a new oppressive benchmark.
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The oppressive scent of the city eased some against the cool river breeze.
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The writer's omniscience, but also the state's, and God's—all of them oppressive.
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But many Dalits see the battle as a victory over an oppressive class.
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"This is a civil disobedience movement to highlight oppressive government laws," he added.
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Those who don't understand why the Framers of our Constitution feared a violent and oppressive mass as much as a powerful and oppressive government learned a valuable lesson watching events unfold at UC Berkeley, NYU and other venues around the nation.
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An oppressive barrier between men and women has finally come down in Saudi Arabia.
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They become oppressive and reinforce ideas that menstruation is dirty or shameful or abnormal.
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Sam's father, who is white, represents a different form of oppressive whiteness for her.
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I live in Mexico and I've never had to deal with such oppressive weather.
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Many Zimbabweans remain concerned he is simply an extension of the oppressive Mugabe regime.
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International human rights groups and exiles routinely condemn what they call China's oppressive rule.
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Her Majesty never tells you overtly that this is an oppressive society for women.
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What is this, the town from Footloose and Roger Goodell is oppressive John Lithgow?
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Its setting and atmosphere are relentlessly troubling, haunted by aberrant forms and oppressive backdrops.
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In his essay "Repressive Tolerance," Marcuse argued that modern Western societies are inherently oppressive.
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Even within the feminist movement, some women have criticized hijabs as an oppressive custom.
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I think I've escaped from the daunting and oppressive nature of genre and expectation.
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By reclaiming Lilith's story, women can push against this unrelenting and oppressive status quo.
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Every problem can be solved by finding some corrupt or oppressive group to blame.
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They are also denounced for human rights violations, oppressive authoritarianism or support of terrorism.
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Home Capital said the claim is based on allegations of misrepresentation and oppressive conduct.
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However, she declined, citing Israel's "oppressive conditions meant to humiliate" her (The Associated Press).
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This was a new way of achieving moral agency in the most oppressive circumstances.
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Trump showed that he was not afraid to take on North Korea's oppressive regime.
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But the winds of southern France often make it even more oppressive for riders.
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Mekatilili is celebrated in Kenya for challenging oppressive colonial policies in the early 1900s.
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She thought that conventional ideas of beauty were oppressive to women and men alike.
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People who've grown up in oppressive churches suddenly get exposed to safe spiritual experiences.
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He was expected to live in silence under the shadow of an oppressive regime.
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However, his violent and oppressive tactics quickly made him unpopular and damaged Zimbabwe's economy.
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The actions and the laws were discriminatory and oppressive, and for that I apologize.
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The pain from her husband is oppressive, but the pain she controls is different.
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The Berkeley police department's actions portend new uses of oppressive law enforcement tactics online.
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Jealously of success destroys and holds people back, it's an oppressive place to live.
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It just felt oppressive, like a curb stomp just to wake up every morning.
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That Perry is so terrifying and maniacally oppressive is a testament to Skarsgård's performance.
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It's this low level, oppressive policing of communities on the basis of marijuana possession.
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That's what happens in war and what happens when fighting an oppressive fascist regime.
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It is difficult to imagine a more thorough or repugnant apology for oppressive exploitation.
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"Under the surface the Italians invented ways to defeat oppressive regimentation," Mr. Barzini wrote.
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And when the bill comes due, populists tend to get more authoritarian and oppressive.
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Omar al-Bashir ruled Sudan for 30 years, overseeing a bloody and oppressive regime.
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Muhammad Zia ul Haq's oppressive efforts to confine women to subservience and rigid domesticity.
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His oppressive conduct is alienating the very sources he should be trying to attract.
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" James Madison called it "the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.
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It exposed the regime for what it is — not only oppressive, but grossly incompetent.
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The room was made up to seem welcoming, but its pleasantness somehow felt oppressive.
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Younger voters are fed up with the country's history of pessimism and oppressive consensus.
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" But later, on Twitter, Tlaib said she would not go "under these oppressive conditions.
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Thousands were following Woods all week, even in the oppressive heat over the weekend.
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Officials in Columbus closed the city's schools because of the oppressive heat and humidity.
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A failed air-conditioning system guaranteed that the heat was all too, well, oppressive.
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Skin Deep Summer's heat and humidity make a face full of makeup feel oppressive.
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This separation of powers was designed to ensure that government does not become oppressive.
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The temperature outside was in the 90s Fahrenheit, but inside the heat was oppressive.
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Rights groups and activists say his rule has proved far more oppressive than Mubarak's.
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No one in Washington, a land intimately familiar with obnoxiously oppressive forms, believed that.
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Even America's heartland populists see themselves as the victims of the oppressive coastal elites.
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This made even the relatively mild rule of Louis-Philippe feel oppressive and reactionary.
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How do you reconcile with paternal love that's as needed as it is oppressive?
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"They were upholding the genocidal and oppressive policies of the United States," she said.
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I really do have some joy left in my heart after this oppressive year.
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I could understand how stultifying and oppressive that felt, and so could my friends.
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Positive content that exists to supplement the terrible and oppressive world isn't going anywhere.
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Some take longer than others, but all oppressive regimes do come to an end.
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Maallem notes that confronting the memory of the massacre every day can be oppressive.
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It's the uniform farmers all around India have used to survive oppressive temperatures for decades.
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She doesn't really practice Islam either: "I find it rather oppressive and patriarchal," she said.
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Cox points out that we all live in the same culture steeped in oppressive attitudes.
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Morehshin Allahyari is doing something a little more radical with the technology: subverting oppressive regimes.
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The year: 1621 — if you choose to believe in the culturally oppressive Greco-Roman calendar.
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It was a very oppressive time because every day we were singing these deep songs.
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And I really felt that sense of danger for her being in this oppressive world.
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There are "tons of microaggressions and oppressive environments we have to deal with," Hanson said.
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As the trumpeter Nicholas Payton recently put it, '' 'Jazz' is an oppressive, colonialist slave term.
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We need games that help us understand the intersection between the ordinary and the oppressive.
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Even so, its oppressive and claustrophobic environments are an effective complement to Gutter's somber testimony.
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Of course she'd want to escape — that's a common sentiment in such an oppressive environment.
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He is described as an "oppressive authority figure" who teaches Sabrina about the dark arts.
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The new president has already gained some popularity by making politics a little less oppressive.
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The dangers associated with long wait times in oppressive summer heat are also a concern.
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But she also hopes to help men who are struggling to navigate oppressive gender norms.
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For anti-government "patriots," however, the legal twists and prosecution felt unfair, unconstitutional and oppressive.
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" She explains, "Fantasies can be both oppressive and exciting, but regardless they are always fictional.
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Crowds could rejoice in their freedom from an oppressive emperor by donning the freedman's cap.
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There are thousands of prisoners sentenced under the oppressive federal sentencing laws from the 1980s.
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I recognized them as oppressive—even the professionals who claimed they meant no such harm.
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In the former, an unhappy housewife, Janie, recalls how she eventually left her oppressive marriage.
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It was no promised land, it was as oppressive as the world I'd left behind.
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Geta Brătescu's work positions the artist as a creator of freedom even in oppressive times.
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Combined with oppressive humidity and relentless mosquitoes, the situation will be miserable -- if not deadly.
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We need games that help us understand the intersection between the ordinary and the oppressive.
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When, Sonia wondered, did the system begin to take this effective, but nonetheless oppressive, shape?
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The nuns nitpicked about the smallest details, she told me, creating an oppressive work environment.
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Remember how a younger Djokovic had the reputation for wilting — even quitting — under oppressive conditions?
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She's good and kind and intimate, but with the oppressive weight of, well, a mother.
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Her home stands, although it reeked of the Thomas Fire's gagging calling card -- oppressive smoke.
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Moss has been outspoken about Gilead's oppressive power structure as it relates to our own.
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She used her promising career in science to hide from the oppressive East German regime.
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It's a brutally oppressive, bleak series of scenes, but it feels profoundly real and tragic.
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Here, sports are martial, oppressive, an act of Americanized aggression toward the weak and nonconformist.
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"We can no longer wait for all conditions because of the oppressive situation," he said.
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Structurally, the pulse is oppressive while the chord progression is somewhat digestible, almost pop-leaning.
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Anyone who has ever suffered from depression knows how oppressive and painful it can be.
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A gallery is filled with very large, immensely dark pictures: an angry, oppressive, demanding display.
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The power brands wield over their suppliers can be oppressive to the point of tyrannical.
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It is a call for freedom from an oppressive society that targets LGBTQ people's lives.
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But Iran is still oppressive, and if you were there, you would instantly know it.
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Muslims who support such violent or oppressive responses to blasphemy are missing two important points.
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Many high school or college students feel woebegone: Parents are annoying or teachers are oppressive.
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At CUNY, people were really, really supportive, like vocally supportive, almost a little bit oppressive.
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Since then, Taiwan has evolved from a oppressive martial state into a wealthy, progressive democracy.
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Furthermore, rejecting his point of view will align you with the oppressive overlords of China!
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But do that in a way that makes it seem lighthearted and fun, not oppressive.
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That is just as oppressive as piping in a bit of Dua Lipa, isn't it?
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These days, the whole idea of Western civ is assumed to be reactionary and oppressive.
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A chemical sludge that optimistic astronomers call "prebiotic" creeps along under an oppressive brown sky.
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There are Imperial Credits, left over from the days of the Galactic Empire's oppressive rule.
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When it comes to voting, Democrats see free ID cards as oppressive and racially discriminatory.
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It was still a delight, apparently, to reënact the lifting of strictures from oppressive times.
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Home Capital said that the claim is based on allegations of misrepresentation and oppressive conduct.
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The Dispatch How does a country begin to overcome generations of one leader's oppressive rule?
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Her goals are straightforwardly radical: to illuminate oppressive forces, redistribute resources and spark social change.
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The conservative actor sees the prevailing political winds in Hollywood as oppressive, rather than liberating.
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Sometimes — especially in Tess's, Del's and Joe's sections — the sense of loss becomes almost oppressive.
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According to Pew Research, 99 percent of the people in Afghanistan support oppressive Sharia law.
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Its activists complain of oppressive curfews and checkpoints, and also decry extra-judicial killings and disappearances.
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The scene simply seems to reinforce the director's idea of Iran as a strange, oppressive place.
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As things trend warmer, we can expect to see oppressive heat waves like these more often.
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And then there's the law of God; when you are told you are unnatural, it's oppressive.
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Your parents fled the oppressive Baath regime of Syria in the mid-1960s for American Freedom.
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"We have oppressive regulations and we have an infrastructure system that's falling apart," Timmons told CNBC.
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American republican ideals spread to Europe, where subjects sought to break the chains of oppressive government.
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The opposition insists the laws are just as oppressive as the emergency powers they will replace.
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" Trump Jr. hastened to add, "Even when they're brutal and oppressive, Indian journalists are always fair.
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And as he clung to power over the decades his rule became autocratic, undemocratic and oppressive.
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If Parliament passed oppressive new laws, the courts might complain, but they could not stop it.
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But the hardest problem — the oppressive stickiness of Facebook itself — would be surprisingly simple to solve.
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Disney shares have been in an oppressive down trend since a fleeting revival late last year.
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By penning this essay, Tran is unapologetically defying the oppressive lifestyle forced upon people of color.
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Smaller planets, like those the size of Mars and Mercury, lose their oppressive atmospheres over time.
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Obviously, it's all part of an oppressive government that cares very little about people of color.
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Journalists around the world are facing unprecedented threats from authoritarian governments, terrorist groups, and oppressive laws.
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He became a cog in one of the most lethal and oppressive machines in human history.
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In The Matrix, fictional AIs would occasionally alter the virtual world to further their oppressive goals.
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It didn't feel oppressive, and...I would love for everyone to experience that kind of freedom.
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In the United States, we live in kind of a racial caste system, which is oppressive.
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Museum educators and interpreters are convening around anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices in the galleries.
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The same policies that smaller companies see as oppressive appear to the big guys as opportunity.
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In the 1970s liberals concluded that the embrace of the state had become smothering and oppressive.
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In Egypt Mr Sisi's rule is proving as oppressive as it is arbitrary and economically incompetent.
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"Charlie's Angels" opts instead to weave references to the oppressive patriarchy into the story and dialogue.
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"Our primary targets are those highly oppressive regimes in China, Russia and Central Eurasia," he wrote.
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Washington needs to confront this oppressive idea by supporting the value of a free, open internet.
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Many have valiantly opposed the oppressive Iranian regime and been forced to flee as a result.
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After 3 hours exploring Pompeii in the oppressive heat, it was time to break for lunch.
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Cillizza's trivia hour was perhaps the most trivial episode in a weekend devoted to oppressive triviality.
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However, political experts and some Zimbabweans fear Mnangagwa may be as oppressive as his predecessor. 2.
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This was Gandhi's reply to a question about whether forgiveness of an oppressive government was possible.
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And the other, an oppressive government that would lead America down a darker, less free path.
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The world felt fucked up and oppressive and apocalyptic, in both a geopolitical and personal sense.
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But at the same time, to be experiencing such an oppressive society outside the house culture.
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Although the full ban was lifted in 2015, a new oppressive rule hast taken its place.
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Picture a handful of people letting go of the oppressive thought that they're not good enough.
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There are too many oppressive forces out there telling you who you should or shouldn't be.
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I do think things are improving in Australia; it doesn't feel oppressive to be here anymore.
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It's like a book burning, but a really good one, not like an oppressive regime one.
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The inherent vulnerability of creating, of seeing each other in these oppressive times, is itself therapeutic.
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This is really the firsthand account of inside an oppressive state regime in a political prison.
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Still, homeowners and landowners in the remaining 22 states remain subject to the oppressive 2015 regulations.
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Date and neem trees line the streets, providing shelter for people escaping the oppressive midday heat.
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" She added, "The dismantling of our democracy and the lies and corruption and hate is oppressive.
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Mr. Ruders's score is oppressive — too much so for comfortable listening, though that's probably the point.
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And they challenge the stereotypes and oppressive standards of beauty that often ignore people of color.
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They're on the right, among people who see the government and its edicts as oppressive forces.
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When the international community condemned Qaddafi's oppressive regime, he found support in far-right Serbian nationalists.
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But there, I was hobbled by different forces, namely Australia's oppressive and notoriously complex defamation laws.
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I am entirely aware that these types of choices might feel oppressive to many young feminists.
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The project also highlights the negative potential of the app in the hands of oppressive regimes.
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"We became a Western poster boy for Islamic states and their oppressive practices," Mr. Nugent said.
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It is growing oppressive in some areas and weak in others, ceding public space to extremists.
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But for now, inside their sparse, oppressive shelter, Khurshida Begum and her family can only smile.
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TOKYO — Japanese summers are known for their oppressive and sometimes deadly mix of heat and humidity.
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Eisa feels, or thinks she feels, alienated in the "godforsaken white oppressive culture" of her community.
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"The Chinese government's use of 'exit bans' is oppressive and unjustified," Markey said in a statement.
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These measures will hasten the demise of two of the world's most oppressive and dangerous regimes.
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Even if the categories are oppressive, the clarity of rules can be a kind of relief.
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Baek draws the guardedly hopeful conclusion that even the most oppressive regime cannot quash human curiosity.
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"You don't have the oppressive feeling that you have with the old truss bridge," he said.
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"It has to do with the oppressive hierarchies being challenged in so many ways," Grimstad agreed.
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But Newman argues that there might be an unintended benefit to the oppressive government's total blackout.
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Some victims of oppressive governments have been dissidents or lawyers living as exiles in rich countries.
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The industrial carpeting is red and frayed, the walls beige and prefab, the atmosphere blandly oppressive.
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In fact, it often feels oppressive, as if there isn't much of a choice at all.
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For a full days work in the oppressive heat he was given forty Baht ($1.15 USD).
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Still recovering from Stay Gold and the dissolution of Klara's Manchester romance, California's sky felt oppressive.
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I want people to be encouraged to challenge systems that are oppressive in their everyday life.
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Often the directors use the oppressive score, by Rupert and Harry Gregson-Williams, as a crutch.
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And every reminder adds to the oppressive sense of claustrophobia that this show evokes so well.
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Their music was more concerned with letting loose than standing against the country's corrupt, oppressive government.
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Who better than artists to challenge and reclaim this oppressive system as a unique declaration of love?
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As the game unfolded they were obliged to wear heavy costumes in the oppressive Chicago summer heat.
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The event has been seen by some as a propaganda tool set up by the oppressive regime.
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The left sees white privilege in America as an oppressive force that must be done away with.
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Like any teenager I was quite restless, and living in the valley seemed quite oppressive at times.
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"Say goodbye to first-world tech woes like oppressive low batteries and limited ports," the page says.
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The regime was oppressive, but mostly left people alone as long as they stayed away from politics.
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But if journalism provided a more comprehensive view of the world, it might not be so oppressive.
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One thing's for sure, the UK doesn't need any divisive policies coming from an empowered oppressive minority.
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There are no places without contradiction, nor places where we can be absolved of reinforcing oppressive structures.
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Beneath that, though, the game tells a powerful story about a struggling group fighting off oppressive colonizers.
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According to Human Rights Watch, about 12% or Eritreans have fled the country and its oppressive rule.
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And unhappy professionals can usually find less oppressive work that pays a lower but still decent wage.
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"Moreover, it's a way to fight to stop the pressure that women suffer in this oppressive system."
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The company's use of Lamar's "DNA" — a song about black identity in an oppressive society — feels telling.
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But trying to ban genetic manipulations would increasingly require the trappings of the most oppressive police states.
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The eternity of waiting and the irreversibility of time spread like a smothering, oppressive cloud around him.
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Societies of upward mobility, when based on large and growing business enterprises, look and feel somewhat oppressive.
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Research by scholars Jeff Colgan and Jessica Weeks suggests that these equally oppressive outcomes are not accidents.
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He has bottled up trouble in Gaza, where 4.53m people live under the oppressive Islamists of Hamas.
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The humidity level is far beyond tolerable, situated somewhere in the oppressive, hellhole realm of summer days.
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Both are about the heavy burden of adulthood for people whose childhoods were oppressive rather than nurturing.
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Pence's neighbors are standing against his well-known history of supporting oppressive policies against the LGBTQ community.
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Countries that do not adhere to the standards, such as an oppressive regime, would not be eligible.
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But military victory will not soon heal the families ripped apart by years of the oppressive caliphate.
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If you can't change a policy you find oppressive, you might as well skewer it on Twitter.
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Women face more than just gender oppression; all oppressive systems -- racism, classism -- impact women in compounding ways.
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The National Weather service says "oppressive and dangerous heat" is expected to dissipate by Monday or Tuesday.
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"We are oppressive in Iran not only toward these but toward many," she said to the agency.
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Also like the Palestinians, the Kurds have endured centuries of oppressive rule by the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
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Marriage, in her work, is oppressive on two counts: as a patriarchal institution and a maternal body.
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They're exploring their sexuality with each other, and that I missed out on, and that was oppressive.
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As a result, it should not be as oppressive by the Fourth of July over the Midwest.
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The deluge of famous names can become oppressive; a more lasting impression comes from small, greedy actions.
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Tlaib cited Israel's "oppressive conditions" of travel as her reasoning, which became the headline of the day.
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The laws of England and Wales have long been decried by the papers as oppressive and draconian.
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Mars is in a tough place: they're aggressive, highly technological, and seen as oppressive by the OPA.
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Somehow, they think, these very real oppressive forces will simply die if only deprived of conversational oxygen.
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As human rights watchers have noticed, Cuba remains one of the world's most oppressive, government-dominated regimes.
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There may be elements of the general populace which are not blindly aligned with the oppressive regime.
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An epic otherworldly event, akin to being overcome by an oppressive heat wave or witnessing cascading plateaus.
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For all the swirling jackdaws and oppressive doom , this book has a ruddy optimism at its core.
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Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the day will come when the people will face a choice.
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" She is also troubled by what she describes as an oppressive political climate that "snuffs out dissent.
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Fundamentalists believed that in the end times, oppressive governments would clamp down on Christians' rights and liberties.
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Seven well-traveled writers discuss the dilemma of whether or not to visit nations with oppressive governments.
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Social justice warriors are prone to argue that America is racist and oppressive in its very bones.
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And when it's oppressive outside, that's almost enough to convince you you're running like the brand's namesake.
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I think that the local becomes the preferred solution to the oppressive globalization that we're living under.
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Even employees who left with a positive experience describe a workplace that is rigid and sometimes oppressive.
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Their senses became so scrambled, their yearning so pitched, that when they disembarked, flowers smelled almost oppressive.
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It's every bit as oppressive as the campus or corporate attacks on expression that conservatives rightly decry.
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And if an organization is ultimately oppressive, principled people who work within it are definitely not complicit.
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A staunch human rights advocate, Reagan was not afraid to call out any oppressive leader or regime.
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That it's not oppressive is a testament to the deft adaptation and, especially, Ms. Moss's layered performance.
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Pope Francis prayed for the "beloved and martyred Syria" and denounced "oppressive regimes" in his Easter message.
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"The dictatorship's oppressive forces did not want to allow us in," Guaido said after his swearing in.
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Ironies and contradictions abound, even as some of the basic facts assert themselves with blunt, oppressive force.
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Some thrived in this new atmosphere; the institutions and norms previously in place could be stultifying, oppressive.
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Which means the Middle East, unfortunately, may yet see another democratic upswell crushed by an oppressive government.
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International human rights groups and exiles routinely condemn what they call China's oppressive rule in Tibetan areas.
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Emily, similarly, doesn't feel guilty about the things she did to strike back against Gilead's oppressive regime.
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The defendants' supporters see the conditions as reinforcing the independence movement's complaints about an oppressive central government.
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He then stepped into the interior of the barrack, whose windows were open against the oppressive heat.
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"Journalists increasingly believe that the government, including the military, is the greatest threat to media freedom in Myanmar, both through its continued use of old oppressive laws which it has no real plans to amend and its adoption of new oppressive laws," the group said in its report.
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It was philosopher Lewis Mumford in the 1930s who said that technology can be equally oppressive and liberating.
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Fakih, of HRW, said research on Syrians in Arsal before revealed "oppressive conditions" that led many to return.
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Coming to this realization has been painful, especially in the face of Poland's religious establishment and oppressive society.
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Of course, in any unjust and oppressive system, a privileged few are going to have a great time.
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Over the course of 10 episodes, we've seen a woman start to fight back againt Gilead's oppressive theocracy.
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There are the oppressive characters in the Waterford household, like Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) and Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd).
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This painting points to the underlying politics in McElheny's exhibition, occurring at yet another fraught and oppressive time.
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Rather, the show offsets the social lows brought on by an oppressive culture with moments of real joy.
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Those limitations, which Apple is gradually loosening anyway, are less oppressive when working in a truly mobile environment.
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These rigid binary ideologies of what is expected are dangerous, oppressive, and toxic to trans and nonbinary people.
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In China, a Les Misérables song about oppressive rule has become an anthem for people in affected areas.
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Chappelle was the wet Bugs Bunny kiss slapped onto the dry oppressive conservatism of the Bush-Howard era.
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Even with the purest intentions, you have probably not unlearned all of the oppressive behavior we all must.
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In the video, Long mentions the July Fourth holiday as a celebration of an uprising against oppressive forces.
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It's about dismantling the oppressive power structures that they actually benefit from, regardless if they're complicit or not.
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" She continued, "I am entirely aware that these types of choices might feel oppressive to many young feminists.
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It offers itself as a kind of handbook on recognizing the signs and dangers of an oppressive regime.
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Although violence can work for a while, oppressive states that are running out of money are rarely stable.
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People must be able to say "no" to oppressive or exploitative relationships, as women know only too well.
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Some bask in his bombastic glow; those who find his presence oppressive slap on sunblock or stay inside.
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I don&apost understand why America would be helping to fund or give cash to an oppressive regime.
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People don't have shitty rural internet because the oppressive federal government is preventing ISPs from digging through Yellowstone.
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Abdulaziz is suing NSO Group, accusing it of violating international law by selling its software to oppressive regimes.
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She grew up under the oppressive regime of Kim Jong Il with little access to the outside world.
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Hip-hop started as a response to the oppressive circumstances of Black and brown communities during the 1970s.
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Protesters have been met by oppressive police tactics, including one incident of a tank rolling over a protester.
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His cheerfully dismissive iconoclasm empowers many Americans with a distaste for the oppressive moralizing of the progressive elite.
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The details build an oppressive whole without us really noticing, shaping the way we interact with this world.
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On their new record, An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil, they again work in stark, oppressive monochromes.
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Toronto's new oppressive high-rises and its growing housing crisis seem fresh and painful, and they absolutely are.
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It is vitally important to prioritize these experiences and help destroy the oppressive forces that threaten minority communities.
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" He added: "We announce our complete solidarity and support with your loud cry against the oppressive Zionist regime.
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Music may transcend borders but, in an oppressive place like Soviet Russia, it was easier said than done.
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And the movie, despite its oppressive World War I setting, believes that something like gender parity can exist.
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Set several decades in the future, Coyote presents a United States that has become an oppressive, dystopian nation.
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" David from Oregon commented: "It is important to remember Uber's oppressive labor practices and deliberate violation of law.
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Yet, even in the face of these oppressive barriers, the entrepreneurial spirit of blacks was undaunted and triumphed.
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But mostly, Niccol writes and directs his own projects, which he tends to give a chilly, oppressive feel.
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The reason they're complaining about freedom of speech is because they're complaining about really oppressive ideas being suppressed.
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It cannot be good to live in a country that you believe to be intrinsically oppressive and unjust.
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He also manages to blend a dank, oppressive, Flannery O'Connor-esque sense of place with humor and optimism.
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This ultimately coalesced into installing the shah, whose brutal and oppressive dictatorship sparked the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
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The bullies ruling over us, were illiterate, oppressive, and preyed upon even our few small moments of joy.
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They assumed that what appeared to be black and Indian inferiority resulted from oppressive circumstances, not innate incapacity.
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Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the day will come when the Iranian people will face a choice.
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She is being targeted just like many civil rights icons before us who spoke out about oppressive policies.
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So you're saying that in Detroit, blackness doesn't necessarily have to be defined by oppressive whiteness around it?
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"People, not nature, are responsible for turning the natural diversity of human beings into oppressive hierarchies," Anderson wrote.
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There is a lot to be said for good old fashioned courtship (minus the oppressive gender roles, tyvm).
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"We can't truly oppose an oppressive regime with an opposition that is unjust and oppresses women," she added.
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It's tomato-y but not too full on, and it feels refreshing rather than oppressive to swallow down.
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"The actions and the laws were discriminatory and oppressive, and for that, I apologize," Commissioner James O'Neill said.
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Her energy is resolutely undiminished by this oppressive heat, despite managing a team of 90 here in Beira.
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The canvas's top margin is blotchy gray, a cloudy sky evoking the oppressive force of the painting's title.
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Muholi implores viewers, like the liberated lioness of "Somnyama Ngonyama," to question and free themselves from oppressive aesthetics.
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Both the M.H.P. and the Good Party are intensely opposed to changing Turkey's oppressive practices toward the Kurds.
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He knows that sex work can be predatory and that rape is violence and that heteronormativity is oppressive.
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At its best, it serves to unite kinky freaks, dissidents of oppressive regimes and sufferers of obscure diseases.
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"I will fight back against every racist and oppressive structure that needs to be dismantled," Ms. Tlaib said.
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"Visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions meant to humiliate me would break my grandmother's heart," she said.
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And that puts a smile on my face—even if it's not obvious under my sweaty, oppressive mask.
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Both Saudi Arabia and Iran are among the world's most oppressive regimes when it comes to fundamental freedoms.
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The company would have to look past New Jersey's high costs, crumbling infrastructure and sometimes oppressive business regulations.
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President Yahya Jammeh's 22-year oppressive rule severely affected the country's economy, which contributed greatly to the exodus.
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Sure, growth under less corrupt and oppressive regimes might be faster and fairer, but that's not the point.
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In its political DNA, the United States encoded long ago a declaration of independence against an oppressive legality.
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The first patient they treat is an 81-year-old man who appears weak in the oppressive heat.
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The move is designed to restrict the flow of money to the oppressive elements of Raúl Castro's government.
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And if all our winning and dominance ever starts to seem unfair, even a bit cruel or oppressive?
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But if not, just who does need to take personal responsibility for participating in oppressive systems of privilege?
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I kept trying to adjust my air vent, but there was no respite from the oppressive cabin temperature.
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"If the tech companies would say, 'You are being oppressive,' that would mean a lot," Ms. Aldosary said.
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Cudd is interested in the way violence in general sustains oppressive social structures, like patriarchy and white supremacy.
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However, Albright's trip in particular was criticized for appearing as an endorsement of a brutal and oppressive regime.
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Mazumder theorizes that tall, oppressive buildings are contributing to a rise in mental health problems among city dwellers.
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The 19th-century assumption that immigrants would assimilate and learn their new country's language seems, to such sensibilities, oppressive.
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Though it could be oppressive when ideological correctness led to contrived, even nonsensical, connections, it has produced innumerable successes.
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There are many culprits in Ms Mekhennet's stories: meddling Western governments, oppressive Arab rulers, manipulative preachers, poverty, Islamic tradition.
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Oppressive temperatures and dangerous heat indices will continue across the Southern Plains though the Lower Mississippi Valley, especially Texas.
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"The truth is that we all hold oppressive, hurtful biases — including toward the people that we date," Fabello concludes.
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Its atmosphere, an oppressive mix of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and sulfur dioxide, is dense enough to crush a submarine.
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Invoking cis white women's vulnerability to rape in order to advance an oppressive agenda is a time-honored tradition.
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That is an oppressive drag on incomes for households, who also happen to hold a record amount of debt.
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Judges and the police should work together to strip oppressive men of their right to be walis, he says.
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The Syrian Civil War was sparked by a brutal dictator who carried on the oppressive legacy of his father.
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Morrison was right that oppressive language should "be rejected, altered and exposed", but the government may not punish it.
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The troubled condition of human rights in Vietnam loomed over his visit as unavoidably as the oppressive rain clouds.
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They are vulnerable: They are subject to the laws of their national government, even if those laws are oppressive.
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I think emails are the most oppressive thing to creativity in 2019 and probably will be until I die.
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Decay and oppressive heat and rotting wood, and this awesome woolly music culture that had grown out of it.
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But Ley has her own agenda, which involves a heist that could free the city from its oppressive officials.
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Most of Thoroughbreds, Cory Finley's sharp and dark directorial debut, takes place in a lavish yet oppressive Connecticut mansion.
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Sean Bobbit's cinematography shines here as the camera follows Jatemme, circling around his prey in an oppressive, claustrophobic way.
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Using radar and infrared light, the researchers managed to pierce our nearest planetary neighbor's oppressive atmosphere and peer below.
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I wasn't nervous to interview champion muay Thai fighters; I was being cooked alive by the oppressive Bangkok heat.
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The ice has the light, flaky texture of fresh snowfall, making it the perfect antidote to Korea's oppressive summer.
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Pro-regime clerics, in the minds of many Iranians, became associated with an oppressive and out-of-touch state.
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But it gets at one of Daredevil's worldviews: that the violence in this world makes oppressive patriarchy seem safe.
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Do women "long to look like women again," when looking 'like women' means conforming to oppressive and unachievable stereotypes?
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This is sensual music to overthrow obsolete and oppressive third world regimes by sharing love and deep ayahuasca meditation.
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Protesters have been met by oppressive police tactics, including one case of a tank rolling over a young man.
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In more recent times, both George W. Bush and Barack Obama sought to promote democracy and punish oppressive regimes.
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They're in parks, ponds, promenades, and soccer fields, and wherever they go, a hefty trail of oppressive feces follows.
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And I think that just felt very special in that environment that I thought was going to be oppressive.
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The newspaper described an "increasingly oppressive environment" for media in Egypt ahead of a presidential election starting on Monday.
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It is a struggle for liberation from all oppressive systems that refuse to acknowledge the value of our existence.
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The oppressive prospect of action by special counsel Robert Mueller hangs like an immovable cloud over his White House.
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Then see if it's easier to eliminate oppressive behaviors and to open the doors for gender parity and transparency.
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Chilling undercover footage taken inside China's most oppressive region shows it's virtually impossible to escape the paranoid police state
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Art has the power to evoke emotion, disrupt oppressive systems and change the way ordinary people think about issues.
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The military coup against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, meanwhile, has created an even more oppressive and dysfunctional state.
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And, sure enough, after her election Suu Kyi became a smoke screen for Buddhist extremism and oppressive military rule.
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It will have a significant impact on millions of small businesses desperately seeking relief from America's oppressive tax code.
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From Bert's road, I spotted what looked like the perfect pool home to shelter from the oppressive summer heat.
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We should stop arming and bankrolling corrupt and oppressive regimes, and work with our allies to do the same.
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But he is also credited with strengthening the monarchy and putting in place efficient — if sometimes oppressive — administrative policies.
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Complicating the equation is the record heat — oppressive where fires are not burning and particularly dangerous where they are.
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Mugabe resigned on Tuesday, in a historic moment that brought his 37 years of oppressive rule to an end.
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In Ember, readers follow Laia and Elias, two teens fighting to change their fate in the oppressive Martial Empire.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran has imposed tyrannical and oppressive rule on a great people for far too long.
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Is big game hunting in Africa, a pursuit enjoyed largely by white people, a remnant of oppressive colonial structures?
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Or do you stick it to The Man by using the tools at your disposal against the oppressive apparatus?
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What if the concept of the traditional white collar office, with its oppressive, regimented hours, was thrown out entirely?
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They are not creatures, we learn from the wall label, but the ominous eyes of the oppressive white man.
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I continue to create artwork that challenges the oppressive views of religious society, especially in the African American church.
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The upbeat music was annoying me and the pace of the game felt oppressive, so I turned it off.
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The United States once championed the Afghan leader Hamid Karzai as the democratic successor to the Taliban's oppressive regime.
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"One day incels will realize their true strength and numbers, and will overthrow this oppressive feminist system," he wrote.
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These thinkers insist that employers already compensate workers for any "oppressive" conditions that may exist by offering higher wages.
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When they returned home, they set out to replicate the oppressive, puritanical ways of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
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Even as the doctors escalate their efforts to vaccinate the villagers, the local cult becomes more oppressive — and dangerous.
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For her, pleasure activism is about combating the oppressive idea that pleasure isn't a natural part of everyday life.
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I see it as part of a queer cultural inheritance: a resilient determination to celebrate, despite oppressive social policies.
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Regional experts will tell you that Iran is not as oppressive or as violent as some of its neighbors.
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Scott Pask's single, multipurpose set has a look of oppressive solidity, with its heavy doors and sturdy central staircase.
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In one realm, the girl lives under the oppressive hand of her stepfather, an army officer serving under Franco.
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Their story, meanwhile, has spread across the world, highlighting the oppressive life that Saudi women and girls can face.
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Fire conditions worsened in Victoria and New South Wales after oppressive heat Monday mixed with strong winds and lightning.
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Make that watermelons, plural, though for all intents and purposes (and those are myriad), they are one oppressive entity.
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To secure it, he is making grand pledges to repeal oppressive laws and compensate farmers whose land was stolen.
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At the same time, many in Iran have already suffered for decades under the oppressive Islamic Republic, she said.
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The Sultan of Brunei has pushed oppressive Sharia law, including the punishment of death by stoning for being gay.
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Even the idea that harassment rules are oppressive — instead of protective of the vulnerable — is itself a pointed worldview.
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"Also we might celebrate the ability of immigrant spelling bee contestants to know that 'oppressive' has only one "r.
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She stood for the rights of all of Myanmar's citizens in the face of decades of oppressive military rule.
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Britain is "cozying up to one of the most extreme, nasty and oppressive regimes in the world," he said.
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It's also helped enable whistleblowers and revolutionaries across the world escape the scrutiny of oppressive governments and organize revolutions.
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"Putin is an oppressive leader of his country who suppresses the free press and arrests his enemies," Colbert said.
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What lessons or warnings do these scenarios, real and imagined, raise about the dangers of technology and oppressive governments?
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The music is mostly terrific, atmospheric or oppressive whenever the necessity arises, likewise the subtle but nevertheless essential sound effects.
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That became the defining principle and the core narrative—Colette finding her voice as an artist through this oppressive marriage.
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The work relates to the oppressive nature of traditional Pakistani clothing, which is wrapped tightly, constraining movement and individual expression.
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The term refers to an uprising of incels that would result in the overthrowing of oppressive feminism, reports the NYT.
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Try wearing multiple layers of loose-fitting clothing, which may or may not be feasible in this oppressive summer weather.
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But, unfortunately, the UN Security Council is often limited by the consent of oppressive governments or vulnerable to superpower veto.
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The summer heat was oppressive even at ten at night, like an oven that had only recently been turned off.
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Camp has historically drawn from the ridiculousness of the cisgender, heterosexual world to critique and ridicule its oppressive social norms.
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For a lot of people, they associate that with an oppressive, racist America, where only rich white people could thrive.
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The heat will be particularly oppressive for many city dwellers because of a phenomenon called the urban heat island effect.
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Congrats to MSCHF for this indispensable tool that will help college students everywhere beat the oppressive tyranny of page counts!
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New technology plays a role in the film, but old-fashioned peer pressure and oppressive bureaucracy are the greatest villains.
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The number of people who reject that oppressive 'ideal' is growing, both among the public and within the fashion industry.
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In the days since November 9, an oppressive cloak of fear and dread has descended upon a great many Americans.
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From an outsider's perspective, this might seem like oppressive societal standards bleeding into what's supposed to be a freeing fantasy.
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Pavlensky said on Sunday he considered the Partizans worthy of the prize because they were opposing oppressive rule in Russia.
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Her voice has literally been taken away by the oppressive system she lives in, a reality experienced by many women.
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District Attorney Larry Krasner had said this month he would oppose the contract&aposs renewal, saying it promotes oppressive practices.
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The implicit requirement that you maintain your supercar in showroom-new condition, if not art-gallery-level nick, is oppressive.
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Her anxiety and inability to cope with the oppressive surveillance and commentary on her high-profile relationships garnered little sympathy.
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But in most games, Roberson—the most oppressive and effective perimeter defender in basketball—makes slowing down stars look easy.
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This is often a patient movie, given an edge by pointedly oppressive night-time cinematography and a murky underwater score.
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Happy Tuesday and welcome to Overnight Finance, where we're remembering what rain is like without oppressive heat or bitter cold.
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The sweeping effort is the first of its kind in the Arab world, where oppressive leaders are still the norm.
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The contractors described oppressive working conditions, with limited breaks and heavy scrutiny, and a job with an intense emotional toll.
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It's oppressive at first, until you give in to Apple's way of doing things and find out it works fine.
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"That Gamer Agreement is grossly oppressive, onerous, and one-sided," Tenney's lawyers alleged in the complaint filed on his behalf.
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"We live in an oppressive society, and this is internalized by all of us and by organizations themselves," Wadhawan said.
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Beginning in the late 1990s, the situation was reversed, and North Koreans have been fleeing their oppressive government ever since.
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Feature Why Berhanu Nega traded a tenured position for the chance to lead a revolutionary force against an oppressive regime.
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Basic physics relationships explain why a warmer climate will likely mean more oppressive heat indices and heat-related health issues.
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It became famous for its incredible camera work, its oppressive sets, its bravura sound design and Klaus Doldinger's iconic score.
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However, according to Tlaib the preconditions for visiting were "oppressive," and she decided to turn down the opportunity to visit.
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The complaint accuses Wells Fargo of engaging in business practices that are "immoral, unethical, oppressive, unscrupulous," and harmful to consumers.
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It could also make it more difficult for an oppressive regime to prevent free expression or coordination among dissident groups.
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"We can no longer wait for all conditions (to be ready) because of the oppressive situation," he told journalists Friday.
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And a lot of them, having fled oppressive Communist governments, found comfort in the Republican Party's aggressive anti-Communist policies.
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I'm no longer enlightened by West's brand of "new ideas," because such oppressive thinking is as old as slavery itself.
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The humidity was oppressive and made me short of breath, exacerbating the tight feeling in my chest from my anxiety.
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The battle for women's land rights in India pits progressive law against oppressive culture — and the culture has largely prevailed.
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Such a political culture is a prerequisite for changing oppressive economic and political forces that entrap both Republicans and Democrats.
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British and European companies by now should very well know the risks involved in enabling and empowering some oppressive governments.
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"Utilizing edits, marginalia, redaction and layout manipulation, the Counternarratives project highlights oppressive patterns seen in news," explains Bell to Creators.
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Temperatures in Mexico's southern region linger in the 90s this time of year, as do consistently oppressive levels of humidity.
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I could spend days in an altered state that gave me a different, better feeling than my oppressive normal condition.
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Something as simple as replacing old, single-glazed windows with modern triple-glazing would insulate living spaces against oppressive heat.
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She is currently three-months pregnant, which makes her ten-hour shift in the oppressive factory environment even more onerous.
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Oppressive heat and humidity, often combined with monsoon rains and soaring smog levels, make summer an excretory season in Korea.
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Part of the Hansen's experience is waiting in line under the oppressive summer sun, a pilgrimage to sweet, snowy bliss.
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We pushed and pulled and lugged our oppressive, gear-laden bikes over nearly every inch of ground, cursing and sputtering.
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He inhabits the body of the remarkable Ms. Foy's Makeda, and he is a vibrant, insufferably sneering and oppressive specter.
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I feel like I'm up against systems that are in place to be oppressive to black boys, to black people.
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Set in a suburban nightmare of oppressive expectations, "A Bad Moms Christmas" ends with its own sequel already cued up.
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While M.B.S. is bringing social progress, he's also reckless, oppressive and brutal, and I am skeptical of his economic competence.
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This is a staggeringly engrossing and effective movie, its settings both beautiful and oppressive, its incidents tense and eye-opening.
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But far-right nationalists equate Tito with an oppressive Yugoslavia, which violently disintegrated after his death in 1980 at 87.
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"The important thing about the archive is that it's not oppressive and chains you to the past," Mr. Griffiths said.
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Salam Fayyad, former Palestinian Authority prime minister: At 50, the occupation remains highly oppressive to us and corrosive to Israel.
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With respect to Mr. Zuckerberg (whose speech was otherwise uplifting and laudable), the idea of the eureka moment isn't oppressive.
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The broader issue, in her view, is this: Why do oppressive regimes and movements invest so much in fomenting violence?
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He opposed convict leasing as a public giveaway to wealthy landowners and an oppressive burden on impoverished offenders, including blacks.
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All but two of the 16 volunteers in their initial study dropped out, finding the two bulky radio transmitters oppressive.
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And liberal academics endure the strange, simultaneous abuse of being seen as jobless pariahs and members of some oppressive elite.
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He was self-conscious about his lack of education, his "oppressive" upbringing in Mississippi, even his skin color, she said.
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For most people, genetic tests that predict the future, especially when there is no intervention, provide oppressive, not liberating, information.
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They've been held hostage by oppressive community systems and silenced in the interest of institutional concerns for far too long.
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There is compelling evidence that such software is being used by oppressive regimes to spy on and harass their critics.
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The first, represented by Joe Keene, involves going back more forcefully to a past where oppressive power structures held sway.
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Judges are meant to be a check on the executive and not just a rubber stamp for oppressive government requests.
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Plus, I found the app's cheerfulness almost oppressive: "Keep going — you can finish it!" it encouraged me at every turn.
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His character represents the most haunting aspect of Ogawa's book: the adaptation and quiet resignation that enables an oppressive regime.
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But that's American public order, often oppressive, controlled with the spectre of fear, and rationalized that it's for our safety.
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But too many people are still suffering in this oppressive criminal system, mainly because of lack of quality legal representation.
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"I deeply resent any allegation that I would collude with the oppressive Russian state," the Republican strategist Roger Stone harrumphed.
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Perhaps what Colony most gets right about living under oppressive regimes is that people try to continue having normal lives.
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The series, set in the 1950s, overwhelms with a visceral sense of how oppressive Elena's little corner of Naples is.
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Oppressive regimes like the one in Myanmar can arrest journalists, but they will never be able to silence independent media.
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Here's a roundup of clothes, shoes, and bathing suits that will hopefully make this oppressive August blaze a little more chill.
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Even the killer soundtrack (which includes Daft Punk and Soft Cell) becomes oppressive, a wall of sound that seals you in.
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The government's behavior toward Milton or the Pentagon Papers may seem more oppressive than requiring pre-approval for a commercial website.
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Apple's famous 1984 commercial promised a future in which technology smashes the oppressive forces of Big Brother and liberates the world.
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Soros said in a video that Hungary under Orban was more oppressive than it was during the Cold War Soviet occupation.
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And governments take advantage of that openness, and the inexperience of users in oppressive regimes to target, intimidate and prosecute activists.
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To endure an oppressive regime, you don't just have to break the rules, you have to know how to break them.
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Sign I've maybe been drinking the oppressive Kool-Aid: This made me cringe with embarrassment instead of cheering for her boldness.
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Of course, that installment is Wednesday's "Baggage," which ends with June being recaptured by the oppressive, sexual assaulting forces of Gilead.
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She goes on to say how society didn't wake up as a series of crises brought about the oppressive religious regime.
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The industry needs to bring trading into the 21st century, but the regulatory structure is so oppressive that progress is glacial.
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A smattering of projections serves not to clarify matters, but rather to heighten an inscrutability that feels less mysterious than oppressive.
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They are part of an oppressive system of state control, which works well in some places while failing spectacularly in others.
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Relieved as they are by the weakening of the church's oppressive aspects, many secularists have missed the flipside of Christianity's decline.
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They are about what happens when you cannot fight your way out of the oppressive system in which you are stuck.
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Another factor is oppressive, ineffectual government, which gives locals little to cheer about and plenty of grievances against which to fight.
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Thailand is currently under military rule and the regime is widely criticized by human rights groups for being oppressive and undemocratic.
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But that impenetrable version of Facebook has become oppressive, raising real fears about monopoly power and a new push for regulation.
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And emerging markets sagged last week — making their recent rally look like mere bounces within oppressive downtrends rather than decisive recoveries.
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This was one of several places where civilians flooded the streets daily to protest against the government and its oppressive policies.
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Because unlike the Amazons, the women in these real-world narratives bear the scars of growing up in an oppressive society.
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It's just that these new rules for eating didn't seem entirely divorced from the more oppressive tenets of the old ones.
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Maybe witchcraft culture really does shine light through the bleak, oppressive, lonely challenges we deal with on the day to day.
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Films such as Living in Darkness which show how women are criminalised for not fulfilling oppressive roles around marriage and motherhood.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: We are confronted by another oppressive ideology -- one that seeks to export terrorism and extremism all around the globe.
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In the 1970s and 80s, people came together to boycott a South African regime and end the oppressive forces of apartheid.
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Do you think it's possible to manufacture that sense of community and solidarity without the oppressive weight of suffering or combat?
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Hence the crucial paradox of resistance: The more oppressive the adversary, the more the resistance must refuse to play his game.
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" He called North Korea "the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet," which is "nothing short of a prison state.
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This is what real punk culture is about — challenging oppressive norms, disregarding them in favor of personal liberty and self-expression.
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"Writing in the Telegraph newspaper, he said: "If you tell me that the burka is oppressive, then I am with you.
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"It's unfortunate that our medical system has been so oppressive in keeping the knowledge of holistic medicine suppressed," Sister Kate said.
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Many areas of research are hampered not only by oppressive politics, but also by a perceived clash between Islam and science.
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It's a more involved request than blocking a specific platform like Twitter, another popular approach among Iran and other oppressive governments.
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Turns out this oppressive smog is a pungent combination of an ancient farming technique and the residues of modern urban living.
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Oppressive laws limit the space for journalists to operate, while financing and publication becomes more difficult and concentrated in fewer hands.
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Again, the conditions on Friday were oppressive — but that didn't explain why Monfils appeared debilitated, or indifferent, minutes into the match.
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From New Orleans to Portland, Maine, the heat and humidity has hit oppressive levels for the second long stretch this summer.
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Read more: Chilling undercover footage taken inside China's most oppressive region shows it's virtually impossible to escape the paranoid police state
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An oppressive heat wave that began over the weekend in the American Southwest has made going outside a serious health matter.
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China's politics became more oppressive, as President Xi Jinping cracked down on dissent and nurtured a Maoist-style cult of personality.
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By the time Toews was born, in 1964, shunning was no longer official practice, but the atmosphere remained oppressive, nosy, censorious.
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Mnangagwa was sworn in Friday as interim president, following Mugabe's historic resignation this week after nearly four decades of oppressive rule.
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To his critics, it is a euphemism for oppressive policing, particularly in minority neighborhoods, particularly against young black and Latino men.
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They have brought a more oppressive tone to the country, with military courts routinely imposing harsher sentences than did civilian courts.
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After my infection cleared up and I felt free of it, it was like an oppressive heavy blanket lifted off me.
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Unfortunately the Iranian people will suffer as well – that's unavoidable – but they will know their oppressive rulers are hurting as well.
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Clearly, we've needed something to combat the oppressive romance imperative — that we must be coupled, or else — for a long time.
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Would he take up arms against an intransigent and oppressive southern regime of Jim Crow, lynching and economic marginalization of blacks?
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An official at Iraq's Ministry of Migration and Displacement condemned forced expulsions as "oppressive" but could not confirm they were happening.
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How do Lollapalooza festival attendees stay as comfortable as physically possible in a park filled with 100,000 people and oppressive heat?
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When Dr. Conway speaks to groups of doctors or hospital executives, they often complain that federal rules are rigid and oppressive.
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The leaf fights are a centuries-old warrior ritual honoring the god Indra, celebrating his defeat of an oppressive king, Mayadenawa.
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You have this circular tube, which is very constraining, and you don't want to put in dark oppressive colors like that.
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People who were shipped out as labor for construction or the ongoing terraforming, or who fled one oppressive regime or another.
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"Working class people of all colors must unite against the exploitative, oppressive ruling class," Party co-founder Bobby Seale once said.
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It's no secret that certain segments of the gay community hold high, near-oppressive standards of what counts as sexually attractive.
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"He died, but his brother is still there, the government is still there, it's still the oppressive government," Mr. Rodgriguez said.
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Some of it I understood — Dave's name shouldn't necessarily be on the chopping block as reparations for years of oppressive patriarchy.
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She is now fighting for the millions of other North Koreans still living under the oppressive regime of Kim Jong-un.
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Strongman systems are by far the likeliest form of government to collapse, more so than even the world's most oppressive states.
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In droves, migrants have arrived at the United States' southern border claiming to have fled oppressive conditions in their home countries.
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" Iran "has been accused and insulted" and "wronged by oppressive sanctions," Mr. Khamenei said, "but not weakened and will remain powerful.
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Others see it as the normalization of an oppressive dictator, and a trivialization of the nuclear threat that North Korea poses.
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The grim tone snowballs, growing more oppressive, when the man (unnamed) and woman (Mia) get together again years after the accident.
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Just to name a few examples: Our earlier piece highlights the extent to which constitutional stability has propped up oppressive policies.
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There are valid cases for online anonymity — including how it allows people to more freely communicate under oppressive regimes, for example.
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It marked a sort of rebirth, a freedom from the hands of an oppressive king, not to mention his military representatives.
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We get the outlines of a grand history and epic struggle between an oppressive empire and the people who oppose it.
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In response videos, YouTube and its owner, Google, were cast as an oppressive establishment forcing left-wing politics into users' feeds.
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According to Reporters without Borders, Iran is still one of the world's most oppressive countries with respect to freedom of information.
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The pairing of these two films juxtaposes narratives about the ascent of oppressive powers and those who fall victim to them.
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The danger here is on full display in U.S. relations with North Korea and Iran, both of which have oppressive governments.
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I remember Bill Clinton, in Warsaw in 1997, proclaiming that Poland's fight against its oppressive Communist regime had changed world history.
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He says he wants a chance to tell ordinary Iranians "the truth, unfiltered, unabridged" about the oppressive clerics who rule them.
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Engaging in what Marxists call "heightening the contradictions," Caldwell argues that the oppressive imperialism of civil rights laws is not incidental.
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Residents worried about what oppressive measures the government would take next, including the imposition of a curfew or curbing internet access.
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People gathered by the hundreds for peaceful protests, crying out for the end to what they said was an oppressive government.
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Brussels first wants Turkey to change its anti-terrorism laws, which it deems too broad and potentially oppressive for European standards.
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I'm not celebrating the death of a human being, I'm celebrating the end of an oppressive era in my native country.
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Just last week the Committee to Protect Journalists even named Trump the most oppressive leader towards press freedom in the world.
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It also calls on the Trump administration to impose tougher sanctions on Chinese officials for their roles in enacting oppressive policies.
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The place, rural and conservative, was oppressive to him and he moved back to the city as soon as he could.
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It seems as if the reason I left Poland in the first place — oppressive injustice — has caught up with me here.
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Despite all this, in the middle of the oppressive Maine winter, an ice shack offers a portal into a secret world.
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For people living under oppressive governments, or who are at a higher risk of being hacked, unencrypted messaging is a liability.
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For as long as he could remember, Father Gregory Greiten, a Roman Catholic priest in Wisconsin, lived with an oppressive secret.
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He said even prison officials found them gory and gut-wrenching, and the environment inside the prison would become oppressive afterward.
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" But nor can it happen when "calling out offensive behavior shades into an oppressive atmosphere of political correctness and even censorship.
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Born in China in the late 19th century, Qiu Jin rebelled against the oppressive patriarchal society in which she found herself.
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Like most cultural constructs that tell women how to be, her image can be freeing and oppressive at the same time.
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You mentioned gender stereotypes just now, and I wonder if you see the institution of monogamy as especially oppressive for women?
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Yet it's undeniable that there is something curiously oppressive about the current bounty, something paralyzing about our ease of access to it.
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Nowadays, it's not an oppressive dress code either — it's well below the "business casual" that people with actual jobs wear to work.
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As any good scholar of Foucault knows, a woman in prison is by definition a woman controlled by oppressive, primarily masculine forces.
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All those rich details, hidden in snippets of dialogue, quest item descriptions and the oppressive environments wrapping themselves around each hollow's journey.
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When it comes to supporting oppressive, inhumane, and illegal policies, we want to be clear: the only right action is to stop.
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It erases the stories of enslaved black people who, despite the most oppressive circumstances, managed to lead as many as 313 rebellions.
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But in pop culture, that narrative remains the domain of women, and witch tales are often intertwined with stories of oppressive men.
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You're not worried about an oppressive government targeting you for a sophisticated hack, or the VPN giving up information to law enforcement.
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In the musical and its 2012 movie adaptation, the song is sung to incite a civilian uprising against the oppressive French monarchy.
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Much of the Muslim world is dominated by violent, oppressive governments, some of which spend liberally to support their interpretation of Islam.
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Many oppressive measures against human-rights lawyers and political dissidents and the recent re-education camps in Xinjiang are widely reported here.
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When it comes to supporting oppressive, inhumane, and illegal policies, we want to be clear: the only right action is to stop.
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The person charged with guarding this bird and sending it to Canada, where the world has not yet gone to oppressive shit.
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More important for such people is whether you trust American and other Western institutions, or regard them as inherently corrupt and oppressive.
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Women were at the center of work; she examined their positions in society, their traumas, and the oppressive forces acting upon them.
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Mason warned that if the federal government were to become oppressive, Congress would be unlikely to call a convention to correct matters.
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What it looks like is this: a coercive, oppressive power imbalance in which saying yes is not the alternative to saying no.
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In other words, female artists have interpreted women's attachment to—or entrapment in—the kitchen as everything from empowering to violently oppressive.
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It's time for this country to retire their binary oppressive Flintstones couples costumes and replace them with far more subversive thruples costumes.
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She would further enlarge the already massive and oppressive regulatory state as she views more government as the solution to every problem.
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"The first five episodes are marked by oppressive dourness, with precious little relief," Samantha Nelson wrote in her review for The Verge.
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The sites which don't actively work to circumvent laws (oppressive or totally sensible) tend to lack any sort of function at all.
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I'm not used to such oppressive heat and I'm grateful to spend my day in an office with A/C all day.
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Humans domesticated themselves as well as their crops and animals, creating space for the drudgery of subsistence agriculture and oppressive political hierarchies.
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He recently branched out into young adult fantasy with The Finisher, which is set in the dour and oppressive village of Wormwood.
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But the assumption there is that there's only one hard-core 3% movement, versus a bland majority and a small oppressive cabal.
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It takes place in a coal mining town, a company town, in which there's a revolt against the oppressive coal mining regime.
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In the book, an Anahata engineer, a royal prince in exile, is captured in his native country, ruled by an oppressive regime.
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Now, nearly three years later, the occult death doom entity turned funerary force has returned with an oppressive new album named Backwater.
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You can explore it just through your mind, feeling the isolation of this gloomy land until you can breathe its oppressive air.
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The answer, apparently, is to let go of our oppressive preconceived notions that keep us shackled to old, irrelevant concepts of coffee.
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What I didn't expect was all of that, plus a surprisingly on-point critique of oppressive class systems wrapped in anime trappings.
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The United States cannot and must not let oppressive regimes in China and North Korea undermine the triumph of the postwar era.
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If there are two things at which New Orleanians excel it's classy drinking and calmly dealing with oppressive humidity while classily drinking.
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Without federal micromanagement and liberated from Washington's oppressive process for control, oversight and compliance review, Texas could radically streamline its Medicaid administration.
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As Mosul sheds itself from ISIS's oppressive cloak, its people face the long, arduous task of rebuilding what's left of their lives.
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And breaking free of the oppressive systems we all live in (some to a greater degree than others) is never, ever easy.
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It's a remarkably pretty album, given the noisemongering minds behind its creation; it's heavy without being oppressive, and challenging without making demands.
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Eco-friendly, environmentalist politics tend to be linked with the ideas of the left, not fused with the oppressive politics of fascism.
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They will also race past the less attractive side of Azerbaijan: its sputtering economy, oppressive political system and simmering conflict with Armenia.
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Should she pump, dump, and expose her paraben-free bundle of joy to a bottle of formula manufactured by the oppressive patriarchy?
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And in some places, such as Ethiopia, farmers were subjected to oppressive command-and-control regimes that sapped their will to work.
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Compared to the democratic mob, hereditary rulers—especially if well tutored by freethinkers like Voltaire himself—were less likely to become oppressive.
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These regions in particular face high prices, slow speeds, and oppressive data caps, contributing to a culture of self-throttling and censorship.
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The person who emerges is often just as overbearing and oppressive as the father she grew up with, even after the transition.
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But political movement won't take place without social change, as Northern Ireland's oppressive reproductive laws are symptomatic of a wider cultural problem.
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Last week, FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly blasted the transition saying the threat of influence and censorship by oppressive regimes is real. Sen.
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Activists and opposition party members speak about the oppressive rule of the Marcos administration, which jailed, tortured and killed thousands of Filipinos.
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Al-Sharif would emerge from the ordeal a transformed woman, determined to coax the freedom to drive from the oppressive Saudi state.
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His critics charged that Ford had turned a blind eye toward the oppressive conditions under which Eastern Europeans were forced to live.
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Weakened global security hurts online commerce and could endanger human rights activists, journalists and dissidents in oppressive countries that rely on encryption.
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We are then faced with a remaining life of oppressive boredom, or replacing our fundamental desires and radically changing who we are.
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As many old friends and human rights organizations attest, the Egyptian state is far more oppressive than it was ten years ago.
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Patients come and go to escape the stench and the oppressive heat, while relatives risk disease to tend to their loved ones.
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Empowered women foster, maintain and enhance civil society structures — which represent an alternative to dictatorship, and thus a threat, to oppressive regimes.
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That effort will require much more than PowerPoint presentations touting change while extremely comfortable with the oppressive economic elite across the continent.
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I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in--fighting against racism, oppression & injustice.
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Now, I rely on them for hot summer days when the idea of shoes is oppressive, for occasional runs, and for travel.
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It is dangerous to believe there is some victory in removing one person from an oppressive system while leaving the system intact.
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The life he breathes into these two characters allows them to emerge as three-dimensional women caught in an oppressive, materialistic world.
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So 'voluntary' assumes that those who are oppressive have some will to move based on moral values, and that does not happen.
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None of them wanted to leave, but felt they had to amid the threat of gang violence and oppressive poverty, Force said.
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In posing the question, Ipsos noted that the dark Web can help protect human rights activists, dissidents under oppressive regimes and whistleblowers.
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Stephanopoulos, however, pressed Trump on his reversal from previous criticism over the oppressive regime that's been accused of multiple human rights abuses.
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And as she examines the way power accumulates and distributes itself, she conjures up the cramped and oppressive sensation of being powerless.
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The king was crowned in 1986 and has often been criticized by human rights groups for his lavish lifestyle and oppressive policies.
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Will Kavanaugh, if confirmed, vote to overturn all these rights because they reflect modern sensibilities rather than archaic, prejudicial and oppressive ones?
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He's done more than anyone to combat the right-wing message that government-funded social services are oppressive or antithetical to freedom.
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What I didn't expect was all of that, plus a surprisingly on-point critique of oppressive class systems wrapped in anime trappings.
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Avenatti's lawyers called the requests 'unduly burdensome and oppressive' and said the demand for tax returns 'violates the right to financial privacy.
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"We can no longer wait for all conditions (to be ready) because of the oppressive situation," he said at a news conference.
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"I believe his position has to do whether we follow the Constitution or the ridiculously oppressive to women Sharia law," Porter replied.
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That power can feel just as oppressive, and have effects just as pervasive, as garden variety administrative agency enforcement of civil law.
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"There's a general misconception that modest clothing is inherently oppressive," said Michelle Honig, the keynote speaker and an Orthodox Jewish fashion journalist.
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The core argument in this mode is that the oppressive structures of society marginalize women, minorities and members of the L.G.B.T.Q. communities.
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The plot concerns a messianic Stranger who arrives and brings what the libretto euphemistically terms "love" to a tyrannical Ruler's oppressive land.
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There are cumulative and complex ways in which art institutions and contemporary artworkers are complicit in holding up the oppressive status quo.
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The new Amazon stores carry a similar vibe as well—very clean, warmly neutral, and with a not-quite-oppressive digital presence.
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He could see Wembley Stadium from his garden, but there were plenty of other places where the horizon was far more oppressive.
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One of the captains of "cancel culture" — which urges people to shun the insensitive, the oppressive, the morally questionable — got canceled himself.
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"Middle-class families across New York continue to struggle with high tuition costs and oppressive taxes," said Republican Assemblywoman Mary Beth Walsh.
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This was all very forthright, but it did not explain the air of oppressive secrecy that seems to permeate the glitter industry.
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It was not immediately clear why, when technicians did not arrive and the heat became oppressive, the staff did not evacuate residents.
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It's like casting off the oppressive wool coat you've been buried under since October on that first truly beautiful warm April day.
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Hopes that she would use her party's majority in Parliament to encourage badly needed economic growth and abolish oppressive laws have faded.
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Takei warned that a registry of minorities in the name of "national security" could lead to the administration justifying other oppressive policies.
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To the Editor: The poultry industry's business practices are not only cruel to animals and farmers, but they're also oppressive to workers.
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Producing zines can offer an unexpected respite from the scrutiny on the internet, which can be as oppressive as it is liberating.
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Like the seeds that sprout in toxic soil, or push up through slabs of oppressive concrete, re-emergence and reinvention become possible.
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Only at sea, once I had shoved my useless smartphone in a drawer, did I realize how oppressive all that choice was.
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Having grown up in an oppressive Stalinist society, he worried that officials would somehow prevent him from leaving again, Dr. Norman said.
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It is my belief that all the people should have access to these skills, to be able to repel these oppressive forces.
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They worry employees would be vulnerable to government pressure to turn over sensitive user data, due to the country's oppressive censorship laws.
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" Local civil rights organizations celebrated the move, including the local chapter of the NAACP, who called the language in the books "oppressive.
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Thus, we are suddenly offered video clips of Ailes's real-life victims, identified by their first names, testifying to his oppressive deeds.
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The oppressive heatwave, persistent lack of rain, and high winds are creating "catastrophic" conditions, dangerously feeding Australia's already out-of-control bushfires.
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That is the way health insurance should be structured, as a free market, freed from Washington's one-size-fits-all oppressive mandates.
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We protested against external oppressors but we also resisted the oppressive conditions of segregation and discrimination through performance, tapping our internal capacity.
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" "How can any nation that claims to sympathize with the people of Iran keep sustaining trading relationships with lawless and oppressive ayatollahs?
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Pledges to end the death penalty and rescind oppressive laws such as the colonial-era Sedition Act were also unpopular with traditionalists.
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And the United States should be prepared to make oppressive uses of A.I. a trade issue that could trigger sanctions and more.
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Likewise, liberation theologians, such as Dorothee Soelle cautioned against "forgiveness" being used to allow oppressive and unequal social structures to continue unchallenged.
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And trying to push the false narrative that I was a supporter of the oppressive things that he did is just not true.
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Though exoskeleton-technology has largely focused on accessibility, (and overthrowing an oppressive space-regime) there's a small handful of exoskeletons geared to workers.
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It's not that Erdoğan has special favor for the feminist movement, which has been grappling with a backslide as Turkey becomes more oppressive.
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But with oppressive surveillance and censorship posing an increasingly grim human-rights threat in Russia, experts caution against writing the release off altogether.
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These weren't apparatuses of an oppressive federal watchdog or bilious hate group, bent on undermining any agenda that ran counter to their own.
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Iran's government is famously oppressive when it comes to public displays of 'western' music, with the nation's youth culture flourishing almost exclusively underground.
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Their strict diet of propaganda means most North Koreans have little idea about the outside world beyond what Kim's oppressive regime feeds them.
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Local media have also reported cases of oppressive and sometimes violent loan-collection methods in a sector that has thrived under little supervision.
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Humidity is oppressive, but air conditioning is artificial; snakes and gators are dangerous, but so is the suburban sprawl that threatens their habitat.
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You might first jump to the oppressive regimes of North Korea, China, or Cuba, where internet access is either forbidden or radically restricted.
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The falcon, the falconer and the artist together suggest a wild and poetic freedom, within the oppressive smog and stress of urban chaos.
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It was oppressive, having people feed you food they wouldn't believe you didn't like and command you to sleep when you weren't tired.
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Rico Rodriguez is back again to blow shit up in Just Cause 4 and help disenfranchised people fight back against their oppressive government.
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Performativity and outward presentation forced by our oppressive social structures be damned: art, my friends, has no gender, and MTV knows it, baby.
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"You deserve what Sisi is doing to you, I hope God sends you someone more oppressive than Sisi," she said in the video.
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We recognize that the world of contemporary art is a privileged one that is often aligned with oppressive and exploitative forces in society.
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And I am sorry Sharia as practice in many countries like Saudi Arabia, it is oppressive to women, gays, lesbians, Christians and Jews.
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But there's a less oppressive light at the end of this very bright tunnel, and it's made out of thousands of tiny pixels.
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A decade later in The Golden Compass, the Magisterium has established an oppressive control on society, stamping out ideas that it deems heretical.
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Although Babin left the group in her early 20s, she is still dealing with the aftermath of her oppressive upbringing and sexual abuse.
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And patriarchy, as with any other oppressive system, guarantees that one community has privileges that it's not willing to give up that easily.
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The idea that technology is both liberating and oppressive, first articulated by philosopher Lewis Mumford (PDF) in the 1930s, started to shine through.
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Of course, one fundamental purpose of a judiciary enforcing a constitution is to stop the legislative branch from burdening people with oppressive laws.
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This get-up definitely wasn't how Margaret Atwood described the handmaids' uniforms in the oppressive society Gilead her 1985 book The Handmaid's Tale.
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But Physique are making nothing new, because "new" is a bourgeois conceit when your chief concern is anthemic destruction of all oppressive systems.
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The data suggested that Cellebrite had sold its phone cracking technology to oppressive regimes such as Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Russia.
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But as someone who works and lives in San Francisco, I've seen firsthand the kind of oppressive, politically correct environment he talks about.
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And if you don't represent a mainstream story, that need to make fun of yourself as a standup can ultimately feel doubly oppressive.
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It's not a video that's against anything—it's about taking possession of ourselves, but in a more aggressive way, against this oppressive mentality.
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They're constantly oppressive, set in a ruined Russia of the near future, the landscape disfigured by war and the wildlife mutated by radiation.
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But her victory over the oppressive French academy structures the plot, leaving the viewer stranded at the moment of Curie's triumphant second Nobel.
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"RUN THE DANG BALL" is the oppressive mantra of a certain kind of mouthbreathing football fan, but the philosophy has its positive attributes.
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Obama's "transformation" is a euphemism for the deliberate crippling and humbling of a great nation he fraudulently considers racist, oppressive, venal and dysfunctional.
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Alas, that position attracted the most conservative Muslim families to cluster there, creating an oppressive atmosphere as older brothers policed their sisters' modesty.
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Legislation based in racist imagery, without facts — like drug testing public assistance recipients — only serves to perpetuate a system of covert oppressive racism.
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The world inside the gulag feels mostly gray and colorless, which reinforces the cold, oppressive nature of both the gulag and the war.
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In the long run, though, the PYD's oppressive rule will fuel the same Sunni Arab alienation that gave rise to the Islamic State.
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Many users also slammed Twitter's statement and Gadde's apology, saying the company should take a stance against the "oppressive" caste system and patriarchy.
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It is followed by Eritrea, Burundi, the Central African Republic and Afghanistan, countries that the report notes suffer from conflict and oppressive regimes.
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And there are many police officers, on horseback, on bicycles, on foot, in reassuring numbers for some and in oppressive numbers for others.
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"The subpoena is unreasonable and oppressive because it would require the Corporation to violate Country A's law," the company and country had argued.
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Sure, Dubai is warm, but if the heat starts feeling too oppressive, there are plenty of places along the Marina to duck into.
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"Spa Night" is a looming family tragedy of immigrants desperately trying to maintain a foothold in an oppressive, upwardly mobile and conformist subculture.
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Perhaps the most lasting of these truths is the relentless destruction of traditions—whether oppressive or comforting—that is the hallmark of modernity.
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The communities we served had been living under the oppressive "Juan Crow" regime of criminalization, racial profiling, for-profit detention, and mass deportation.
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"I will fight back against every racist and oppressive structure that needs to be dismantled," Ms. Tlaib said Wednesday, after her primary win.
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Ultimately, an employee at the Guggenheim gave up the black cardigan that had been keeping her warm from the museum's oppressive A/C.
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The lack of outside regulation and the huge sums the companies charge leave the door open for abuse by oppressive states, he said.
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What results are dissertation-like monologues where the reader is schooled on the intricacies of white guilt as it relates to oppressive cultures.
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"Oppressive language does more than represent violence, it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge, it limits knowledge," Morrison said.
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Race stories Through self-portraits, Zanele Muholi reimagines black identity and challenges the oppressive standards of beauty that often ignore people of color.
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Khaled's not telling a story about them so much as tapping, obliquely, into an oppressive national mood and purportedly liberating Hassane from it.
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And D. BKLYN from Md thought his tweets were oppressive and divisive: I really think that Donald Trump is a cyberbully in charge.
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Mr. Ratmansky's is poetic and human-scaled, focusing more on the young lovers' attraction than on the oppressive circumstances of 14th-century Verona.
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Hosni Mubarak, who governed for 30 years until his ouster in the 2011 Arab Spring, also presided over an oppressive, often cruel system.
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In this light, the portrayal of Sikan as pregnant suggests the artist's power as a creator, a bringer of knowledge under oppressive circumstances.
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But in our status-obsessed culture, it can be hard to appreciate that the opposite of obscurity isn't fame, but chillingly oppressive fear.
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Teresa Sutherland's nonlinear screenplay emphasizes the godlessness of the setting, while terse dialogue and a moaning, percussive sound design enhance its oppressive loneliness.
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Pence is portrayed in the book as an oppressive, white-haired stink bug who tries to prevent the two rabbits from getting married.
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The people who live in the village of Glass are a sad lot, their lives suffused with a grayness that borders on oppressive.
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More than four million Venezuelans have fled the country, seeking relief from food and medicine shortages under the oppressive rule of Nicolás Maduro.
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Second, and perhaps more importantly, the clemency working group seems to be working outside of the oppressive influence of the Department of Justice.
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" Such coverings, she said, were "oppressive, presented barriers to assimilation, disadvantaged women from finding employment" and "had no place in modern Western society.
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Summer in New York City means one thing: an oppressive, "I-didn't-know-I-could-sweat-there" humidity that you just can't escape.
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As long as people have debated the idea, there has been disagreement over whether paying women for unpaid labor is liberating or oppressive.
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But playing Saturday in humidity that was only slightly more oppressive than the expectations placed on him, Matsuyama struggled to find his rhythm.
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This oppressive agenda, and the audacity with which it was executed, was on the minds of voters and apparently rejected on Nov 8.
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"We emphasize however that it would not be oppressive to prosecute Mr Love in England for the offences alleged against him," they wrote.
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Juvancic likes the gloomier songs best, seeing them as evidence of a long history of women quietly rebelling against oppressive expectations and institutions.
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People have to find common ground, not revenge, and trust each other if we are ever to escape this cycle of oppressive brutality.
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It doesn't disappoint — an underground group of queer librarian spies fighting fascism from the inside, in an imagined oppressive future of Southwestern America?
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The heat can be oppressive, he said as he stood by an industrial-scale air-conditioner that showed a temperature of 95 degrees.
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She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund – doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in exchange for cash.
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It is as though, in his illustrious presence, they realize they have too much freedom on their hands, which they find suddenly oppressive.
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However, there has been significant backlash to the idea since the proposal surfaced, with critics comparing it to the likes of oppressive regimes.
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Essun's husband has murdered their son and kidnapped their girl on the same day their civilization has collapsed because of an oppressive regime.
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She was also acutely aware of the importance of individuals who challenge with integrity the abuses of power in all their oppressive forms.
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The country's internet access was disrupted during the protests in 2017 and 2018 — but this almost complete shutdown sets a new oppressive benchmark.
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Whether this is in the present or for people later, finding this inward representation feels essential especially for those exposed to oppressive societies.
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This strategy is dangerous and counterproductive, making Tehran more provocative abroad and oppressive at home while limiting the United States' options for engagement.
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It was a rebellion, an act of empowerment meant to resist the oppressive conditions under which Newark residents had been forced to live.
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Our other finalists tackled a wide range of subjects, from wrestling with hoarding and body image to rejecting oppressive masculine codes of behavior.
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And I hope the media will pay more attention to the oppressive rules and regulations governing the lives of people who are incarcerated.
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In this aggressively peaceful environment, the apocalypse doesn't come in the form of destruction, but rather in the form of lifeless, oppressive perfection.
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That led people on the Indian left to criticize the company for failing to take a stand against India's oppressive caste system and patriarchy.
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But it also foments disdain towards public servants, who seem to be aloof most of the time and turn oppressive when pressed from above.
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Many campaign on that sentiment, none more than former prime minister Maliki, who is widely viewed by Sunni and Kurds as sectarian and oppressive.
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They self-describe as a "slow & heavy two piece with anti-oppressive and fantastical leanings," and the predominant sound here is sludgy, lightless doom.
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The lighting is moodier, the atmosphere feels more oppressive, and the introduction of Pennywise at the scene's conclusion is a lot more eerily subtle.
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The Foos—prematurely elderly with the magic of prosthetic makeup—find themselves in an oppressive nursing home, lead by terrifying Nurse Ratched-like staff.
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Few of those applicants are claiming classic forms of persecution — by an oppressive government, based on the target's race or religion or political opinion.
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Stacks of pale plastic bins lined the walls, and a dank, oppressive smell made me feel like the air around me just got heavier.
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We see women as another victim of this oppressive society that says you have to become like a man in order to get ahead.
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The experience of watching Margot Sleator (Amy Forsyth) stumble on her dead father (John Carroll Lynch) over and over again is claustrophobic, oppressive, numbing.
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I can't say the rules I mentioned above are bad for everyone, but they can become oppressive to the individual or threaten their safety.
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While Western readers moved on from Tutuola, West Africans were able to reevaluate his work out of the oppressive pressure of the colonial gaze.
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The ability to disarm the target by masking a rallying cry with festivity and play has allowed these traditions to endure in oppressive environments.
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Through its performative nature, the work reveals the grotesque side of consumption, making passersby and diners accomplices of an oppressive and unjust capitalist economy.
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In the subsequent inquiry Lord Woolf, a judge, identified overcrowding, overstretched and oppressive staff and grim conditions such as "slopping out" as contributory factors.
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At the very least, those who hold oppressive views on race might see in libertarianism a cozy space to exercise their free-speech rights.
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Rather, he's an oppressive villain who appears to want more power, and he'll destroy Earth's last line of defense in order to do so.
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To be clear, I'm not saying better sex is worth all the authoritarianism and travel restrictions and purges we saw in oppressive socialist states.
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But they also imposed a system of oppressive religious taxes and issued a series of decrees covering all aspects of public and private life.
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Summer's rising temperatures may serve as an excellent excuse to eat ice cream for lunch, but the oppressive heat makes getting dressed basically impossible.
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Miseducation is as interested in the stealth ways people find joy and intimacy in an oppressive world as they are in the oppression itself.
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What kind of educator would I be if I did not also work to reject this oppressive culture in my personal and public life?
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" Lena Jackson, a rapper based in Hillsborough, North Carolina, was at the women's rally on Raleigh "to resist oppressive forces in the United States.
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It tells the story of five sisters who do everything they can, even commit suicide, to escape the strictures of an oppressive conservative society.
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Nor do I believe that India is such a fragile country it needs constant protection from the oppressive forces of Western musicians and artists.
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It shows, as "Casablanca" did, that those living under oppressive regimes may grapple with love and loss as well as the question of survival.
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Instead, PAM directly attempts to confront the oppressive burden of silence by liberating the symbolic potential of art to an inverted anti-monumental form.
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Elections are often a critical moment for oppressive behavior from governments — Uganda, Chad and Vietnam have specifically targeted citizens — and candidates — during election time.
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Exiles and human rights groups say those Uighurs engaging in violence are lashing out at oppressive government policies that restrict their culture and religion.
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The plot parallels are significant, but Garland's use of oppressive atmosphere and some of his specific visuals toward the end are even more telling.
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America's legal system will ignore the mounting evidence that women feel vulnerable at work, operating in oppressive environments for them to make a living.
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Contrary to conservatives' warnings about the oppressive secularism of the modern university, these students have taken advantage of their campuses' multicultural marketplace of ideas.
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" In examining this history, the UN suggests that "lack of legal status and identity is the cornerstone of the oppressive system targeting the Rohingya.
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But then there's also the problematic sides of oppressive behaviors and things that are outdated, or maybe still happening, being celebrated in the culture.
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Atop the oppressive map, there appears to be some kind of leather bound booklet, no doubt full of Charles Mingus and Ella Fitzgerald albums.
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The experience of having an oppressive job, or going above and beyond your job description is the stuff good character is made of, right?
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The Carr Fire was just one of several wildfires that have dispatched firefighters to all corners of the state amid an oppressive heat wave.
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It resembles a very large rag rug and presides over whatever space it's in with a weight and solidity that's comforting, rather than oppressive.
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"For those who were born and bred into the Hasidic community and never questioned the basic tenets or oppressive lifestyle, it works," Goldberger said.
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The conservative kingdom where much of life is governed by Islamic laws shook off some of its most oppressive practices against women this year.
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What's so refreshing about his works is his obvious desire to emancipate himself from the sometimes oppressive internet imagery and web subculture—think 'memes.
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Expectations that persons of different cultures and religions should conform to an American ethos would be derided by many as oppressive and dangerously nationalistic.
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Babaeva's wayward organisms threaten the kitsch 'designer' consumerism, breaking away from a mold that, like the imposing arrow aforementioned, can be an oppressive guide.
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A descendant of Taylor [Charlton Heston's character from the first film] would eventually lead a human slave revolt against the oppressive Roman-esque apes.
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But the books don't, instead bringing readers into the minds of archetypal women as they seek power and survival within an oppressive patriarchal society.
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Judgement made the franchise much more inviting to casual players; prior entries could be oppressive, forcing you to spend hours learning Gears' unique quirks.
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The issue is that encryption is supposed to protect anyone from powerful malicious actors, such as an oppressive government or well-funded criminal organization.
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America's WWII efforts were global, and they were aligned with overall objectives to subdue authoritarian regimes intent on spreading oppressive ideologies throughout the world.
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The "rules" put in place and enforced by male-dominated institutions—government, academia, industry, science, religion—have indeed been exposed as predatory and oppressive.
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He rebranded himself as a man of action who during speeches would throw away his oppressive tweed jacket and demonstratively roll up his sleeves.
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Clinton becomes as unacceptable as bigotry, when her supporters are called privileged, oppressive and stupid, we lose the central feature of our democracy — pluralism.
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It is putting the corporate bottom line over the rights of innocent Chinese citizens who are continually denied basic freedoms by their oppressive government.
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The fact that the hijab has been under so much scrutiny—called wrong and oppressive for women—made us wonder what was the problem.
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While Tor helps enable largely untraceable criminal marketplaces, it is also an important tool for providing free speech outlets in countries with oppressive governments.
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Amnesty International has said it believes the country is responsible for "sportswashing" in an effort to deflect attention from allegations of an oppressive regime.
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