Sentences with phrase «how oppressive»

Students will explore various components of our pluralistic society and how oppressive systems can exclude and harm individuals.

Ultimately it depends on your individual situation factors like: the amount of your loans, the interest rates on your loans (how oppressive are they?)

He sets the stage for Mayhem by showing us how the oppressive world of big business runs, piece by piece, and sets about dismantling it using tropes from scary movies, video games, kung fu films and workplace sitcoms.

The style of the film is its substance, and Kobiela and Welchman seem to recognize how oppressive and backward it is to impose logic on an artist whose so vividly defied it, even if that knowledge couldn't stop them from tilting at windmills.

(2) I see the average temps and humidity for the summer look pretty high — any anecdata as to how oppressive it actually is?

I wish I'd known how oppressive the accumulation was going to feel, and just not spent all the money.

Peter A. Baynes, Executive Director of the New York State Council of Mayors said, «Governor Cuomo's creation of a team to examine how oppressive mandates are crippling local governments, including cities and villages, is a welcome relief from years of inaction.

How oppressive that can make your every day movements.

I'm glad I don't go to a church where people go round pointing the finger at other people and calling them a sinner — can you imagine how oppressive that would be?

It really does nt matter what my beliefs system was, let's just say it was based on chaos theory and science as applied to occult arts, I have since moved on to more pragmatic beliefs but I clearly recall how oppressive they were and surprised at how much propaganda they spread that was based on their ignorance.

Not exact matches

Just how much, if any, of this course - correcting for consumers (read: lower prices) comes out of employees» hides (read: lower compensation, less training, a more oppressive pace) remains to be seen.

I mean, think about areas outside of the United States that have high inflation rates, if you are a consumer there, in an oppressive regime, you want a way to have more control over your assets and not be at the whim of governments, so that's kind of how it all started.

However, I've also seen far too many people attempt to ground their identity in doubt - free theology making it all too easy for comedians such as Bill Maher, George Carlin or Ricky Gervais to come along and thoroughly dismantle flimsy beliefs about the creation narrative, the historical Jesus or how seemingly misogynistic and oppressive the Bible sounds.

He says we want everyone to know about it, to hear how beyond the oppressive rules of our youth we are now.

If we conceive of the Word or Spirit as moving more and more fully into the body of the profane in response to the self - negation of God in Christ, then we can understand how the Christian God gradually becomes more alien and beyond, receding into a lifeless and oppressive form, until it finally appears as an empty and vacuous nothingness.

But how could Christian values be disseminated by a Christian upper class apart from some form of oppressive rule?

It's like you don't even realize how the things you say echo the things said by evil, oppressive majorities all throughout history.

More fundamentally, how is it acceptable to tell religious minorities that things are comparatively good for them because they can «choose» to accept oppressive and demeaning treatment and manage to survive?

If the Bible is oppressive, how do we then relate to God?

How is it acceptable to tell religious minorities that things are comparatively good for them because they can «choose» to accept oppressive and demeaning treatment and manage to survive?

Furthermore, how do you propose that we are called to service to Jesus, the one who has been sent by God to redeem us, when both God and Jesus have been principle weapons in the oppressive [white patriarchal] arsenal to keep blacks and black women in their appropriate place?

Christians seem to bash Islam for being oppressive to women but can not see how their own ideology mirror's it in many way's.

Although you certainly did a great job demonstrating how believers are oppressive and intolerant.

One of the important points about the new spirituality is how to read the biblical materials in terms of a dominant concern of our times namely the removal of present oppressive structures.

Fearing a drift into oppressive «technocracy,» Houston pleaded with his audience to «far more seriously turn our minds, our scholarship, our practical concerns, to know how future man can be defended against the impersonal forces, the manipulations and other pressures of the complexities of life in these closing decades of the twentieth century.»

It's hard to come up with much better evidence for the taboo around criticizing the oppressive nature of competitive mommy devotion than Janice D'Arcy's review of French feminist Elisabeth Badinter's new book The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women.

How would you deal with a cabinet sex scandal?I would lobby for a redefinition of the oppressive noun «scandal».

My wife, meanwhile, fought her way through the usual challenges faced by young scientists working at small colleges: learning how to teach courses she never took; starting up a research program while managing an oppressive teaching load; dealing with tenure pressures and associated political shenanigans.

Thus he became a symbol of another of the great themes of the century: how history was shaped by tides of immigrants, so many of them destined for greatness, who fled oppressive regimes for the freedom of democratic climes.

Anything, even oppressive and demoralizing office politics, is better than learning how to manage my own finances.

Mikami knows how to craft survival horror combat in tight, oppressive environments that make every encounter a comprehensive test that could be your last.

(One of Raimi's own «gifts» is knowing how to shoot a wooded area for maximum oppressive effect; see also: A Simple Plan and the first two Evil Dead movies.)

Much like how Lamar's «DNA» is about rising up and standing proud in an oppressive society, Black Panther will examine how a kingdom could have progressed into greatness if it hadn't been conquered.

Collectively these reform efforts have been regressive, repressive and oppressive, as well as dismissive of educators, who as highly educated professionals, are trained to know how best to develop young minds.

I am fortunate enough to have a wife who doesn't mind me turning my light on after she's gone to sleep, but I can see how the sidelight could be huge for those in more oppressive domestic situations.

Joining us is Richard Bangs, Co-Founder of Mountain Travel Sobek and the «father of modern adventure travel» to discuss traveling to countries with oppressive governments, and shares how people to people interactions help break down barriers.

Most importantly of all, Dragon Quarter is a game that takes arguably the most enticing aspect of the role - playing game: the high - fantasy universe full of interesting places to go, colorful people to meet, and the leisurely pace and narrative construction to see it all, and replaces it with a 12 - hour average playtime, the oppressive, small, rocky corridors of an underground setting, a HUD number that reminds you how close you are to dying, and a HUD number that reminds you how close you are to escaping this post-apocalyptic hell.

Creative Director Cristian Diaconescu expanded on how they created the feeling of living within an oppressive regime within Black The Fall.

This episode examines how female sidekicks and companions in games are often designed to function as glorified gatekeepers, helpless burdens, and ego boosters, a pattern that works to reinforce oppressive notions about women as the ones in need of protection and men as the ones in control, who take action and do the protecting.

The short film explores how silence is both an oppressive experience and an act of strong resistance, as well as how these two aspects of silence are connected.

How can they be shown in public life without behaving like painful reiterations of a violent and oppressive history?

Centred around an understanding of how the actions of men fuel the changes and gentrification occurring in London, Sahhar uses painted avatars to look at how gendered identity and masculine characteristics inform and shape such processes — to the detriment of others and specifically, the oppressive effect this can have on the queer body and communities.

Hazem has been preoccupied lately with questions around architecture and destruction: how and when does architecture cease to be an oppressive apparatus?

Tafur's work uses representational symbolism to unearth the oppressive roots of America's founding, illuminating how institutions such as white supremacy and misogyny are not just present here today, but are intrinsically American.

But these new surfaces also create a greater discrepancy between how these paintings look - which is free and intuitive - and how they are made, which, on this scale, becomes labor - intensive and a little oppressive.

A short film that explores how silence is both an oppressive experience and an act of strong resistance, as well as how these two aspects of silence are connected.

It was a media event, featuring a Q&A with the artist and lots of arty farty journalists trying to outdo each other with wanky questions like: «There is a growing reliance on psychic biography in society, which is incredibly oppressive, how can the artist avoid this stifling his work...» or some such ridiculous shite.