Sentences with phrase «as oppressive»

World Vision is committed to maximising the amount of donor money that reaches those in need, which means the budgetary pressures Devoe and her team operate under are as oppressive as those at the most cost - controlled corporate (with the added moral burden of knowing every dollar spent on legal fees is a dollar less spent on saving lives).

In retrospect, the courts should, perhaps, have been more prepared to strike out many of the pre-rehearsed requests as oppressive and, in some cases, as constituting quite simply an abuse of process... [M] any of the requests in this and similar cases are either irrelevant or not permissible in law as particulars are nonetheless steadfastly advanced shows that many pleaders have simply gone astray in their enthusiasm to interrogate every possible detail of their opponent's claim.

But while gender roles are not as stable, not as oppressive in our contemporary society as they once were, one cursory look at any glossy magazine or Hollywood movie reveals that we've taken little more than a baby step away from the me - Tarzan - you - Jane approach.

Pope.L, like most of the critical artists of his generation, understood that those aims were just as oppressive of the potent interplay of abstraction, representation, and illusion that remains with us today, as they were of artists themselves.

The exhibition is an opportunity to re-appraise notions of the Medieval in popular cultural imagination, commonly functioning as an oppressive site for vicarious realities, and instead considering the idea of the Medieval as a «Middle Age» between what came before and what comes next.

Painted with a font design similar to that of the mural, the objects are «desecrated» with what seems a provocative and cynical gesture, rejecting a cultural heritage that is perceived as oppressive.

From a narrative standpoint, the Schwarzwelt is introduced as an oppressive environment that will slowly consume the entire planet; it's only natural the gameplay reflect that hostility.

A longtime education advocate, Pelto also opposes what he views as oppressive federal oversight in public education.

Enlightenment in this form was experienced by many as oppressive rather than liberating.

Instead, teacher candidates must embrace — and be prepared to teach our state's kids — the task force's own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic.

This naturally discredits such tests as authentic measurement tools in the minds of students, and instead relegates them to mere «academic» status as another oppressive set of numbers.

The score, while wonderful on its own, is as oppressive as it is random in its application.

By placing at the centre of the narrative a white woman who believes she belongs to the land, against a set of people who see her presence as oppressive and who want to brutalise her, yet who also carry out acts of violence against one another, Denis returns to the core themes of her earlier films (such as Chocolat, 1988)-- the highly problematic issues inherent in the processes of colonisation and decolonisation (2).

It would have been easy for director Joshua Z. Weinstein to frame the strict religious rules that govern this community as some oppressive nightmare there only to be escaped from, but he's careful to offer a matter - of - fact vision of a highly regulated life.

One identifies in turns with both of these inexperienced, erring characters, who bring the baggage of their families as well as oppressive social convention to the nuptial bedroom, happily with a little bit of humor thrown in.

High marks also go to the supporting performances from Odenkirk, Bradley Whitford as oppressive board member Arthur Parsons, and Tracey Letts as Kay's confidante Fritz Beebe.

Such hypersexuality can be just as oppressive as a mandate for abstinence.

Many see science and technology as oppressive and uncontrollable forces in our society.

It appears that religious liberty, for the conservative fools running the legislature, only matters when it's the «liberty» to be as oppressive and cruel as you can think of, but doesn't matter one bit when all you want is the religious right to marry the people your church loves and supports, regardless of gender.

The dominant power is christians, that are often almost as oppressive as their islamic counterpart.

The statement said the Electoral Commission (EC) used the electoral laws as an oppressive tool against them, forcing them to spend six weeks in court to litigate the injustice.

Asked about people who might not wish to marry because of their beliefs, including those who saw marriage as oppressive to women and born out of a patriarchal system, she told the committee she did not see why it would oppress women any more than men.

College football comes close, with school chants and marching bands, but they aren't nearly as oppressive as 20,000 - 50,000 mostly male voices screaming words you probably don't understand.

Any such regime is bound to be as oppressive, uncreative, and unproductive as it is illegitimate.

Such standards are increasingly regarded as oppressive and thus in violation of human rights.

No one is doing these women any favors by blasting the religion they follow as oppressive, and then doing nothing about it.

Theories that confine individuals to certain roles, jobs, or images such as «the man at work and the woman in the home» are thus denounced as oppressive.

This raises the standard of proof of intent (and quality of communication) significantly, because it can be perceived as oppressive in itself.

She speaks of a feminist critical hermeneutics deriving its truth «not only from biblical writings but also from contemporary struggle of women against racism, sexism and poverty as oppressive systems of patriarchy».21

Remember Justice Kennedy's astonishing words in Lawrence v. Texas about the word liberty in our Constitution, the words which will serve to justify the emerging right to same - sex marriage and even the deconstruction of civil marriage itself as an oppressive constraint on the individual:

Whereas in early modernism it was generally supposed that a rational religion of some form is needed to maintain social order, in late modernism religion in general is typically seen as an oppressive and distorting force from which the human spirit needs to be freed.

Just wondering, many here would condemn the Muslim practice of hijab, specifically the full - veil clothing worn by women as oppressive.

When monastic life is not characterized by such cooperation and equality, it is often portrayed as oppressive, legalistic, and even brutal.

The controversial Islamic teaching that women should cover their heads is often viewed as oppressive.

That is really just as oppressive to my students as anything I grew up with.

This tends to be a real problem among the holy hipster set where boundaries are seen as oppressive and evil whereas I see healthy boundaries as life giving forces that can keep me from falling into an addictive cycle.

Some portray the apostolic witnesses less as revelatory witnesses to God's mercy than as oppressive promulgators of abusive images of God.

The difficulty in which we find ourselves, however, is this: If the Bible itself, the revelatory, identity - defining text of the Christian community, is portrayed as oppressive, on what basis do we know God or relate to God?

Karen Armstrong, in her book, Islam: A Short History, states that in the early days, (Women) did not seem to have experienced Islam as an oppressive religion, though later, as happened in Christianity, men...

Also applicable to much more than the plight of Catholic sisters is this devastating critique: «Tradition has been abandoned, and the past is perceived as oppressive.

As oppressive as this legislation seems, it is fitting that these new regulations come under the guise of an anti-terrorism law, because that fits well into the narrative of protecting Russian national identity and deeply held Russian values against dangerous foreign influences.

However the pigs end up being just as oppressive to the other animals as the farmer ever was.

As every cause must have its antithesis, the movement has been greatly energized by radical feminist hostility to the family as an oppressive institution, and, more recently, by homosexual agitations to relativize the meaning of marriage and family by the formal recognition of same - sex unions.

Could the Western woman's apparent need to get up early to wash, dry, straighten, curl or lacquer her hair in an attempt to look attractive be just as oppressive as being forced to cover your head?

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The strangest aspect of the trust, he said, was a provision that could operate in an entirely oppressive fashion, potentially excluding her as a beneficiary if she was convicted of a drink driving offence.

As the economist Josiah Stamp recounted of another power trying to control a vast territory through oppressive means, «the Government [of British India] are very keen on amassing statistics — they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

As a culturally protected Canadian suffering behind the oppressive wall of telecom company streaming rights, these are services I don't get to experience regularly.

The list includes the usual suspects who routinely censor and restrict their citizens» Internet rights, such as China, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, but also those governments that are allowing entertainment companies to bully them into adopting oppressive laws.

Quoting «people familiar with the matter,» the Wall Street Journal reported that several investors had been pushed Kalanick to resign in an effort to steady the company's course as he struggled to clean up, among other things, charges that its workplace was sexist and oppressive for women.