Sentences with phrase «seem oppressive»

Perhaps not wanting to seem oppressive, it only seeks to enforce its US judgment to that extent that if it can not succeed on its claim to enforce its US copyrights directly in the English courts

The finance fees didn't seem oppressive and we thought they were worth the convenience and spending power of a wallet filled with credit cards.

When measured by perfectionist standards, the result of the best reform will fall far short, especially since one person's perfection seems oppressive to others.

For me, it also helps to treat the local public library or coffee shop as an «escape» I can go to a few days per week when working at home seems oppressive.

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Sadly we must note that there seems to be an oppressive and murderous element at work in the world.

Indeed the desire of the counter-cultural types to take charge of the education of their own children seemed a reasonable extension of the kind of liberty we were being taught, in the public school, that America had been founded to protect, and a rational response to the kind of oppressive social control some of the cooler teachers taught (this was a college town, as I said) capitalist society imposed.

Given that this rests upon outdated cisgender and heteropatriarchal categories, the very existence of such would seem to go well beyond a mere microaggression and to be a rather hate - filled and oppressive phenomenon.

Much of the enthusiasm in such movements seems to me an unintentional contribution to accelerating the spread of oppressive regimes.

If faith means living according to some venn diagram which outlines what lies within the bounds of «truth» and what doesn't, which seems completely oppressive to anyone sincerely seeking to discover what the truth actually is, then I have no faith.

Just because women seem to buy into a practice, does not mean it is not 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.

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...

We withhold a third cheer — partly because at the present cultural moment it seems inappropriate to give three full cheers for anyone or anything, partly because we remember too well recent history's oppressive misuses of Thomas's thought.

The idea that individual identity should be subordinated to communal identity is viewed as intolerably oppressive — except, it seems, in the case of the «loving gay and lesbian support community.»

On the king's refusal they set up a state which at first seems to have fulfilled their objective of freedom from city domination and from an oppressive court, but within half a century matters in the north were every whit as bad as in Judah.

Despite the oppressive state, Cuba seems more manageable, a place where little things could make a large difference.

The term «constraint» often has a negative ring because it seems to imply oppressive limitation.

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.

Shortly after that, the first currents of liberation theology emerged in Latin America and the U.S., making neo-orthodoxy seem stuffy, provincial and oppressive.

Both kinds of critics argue that in comparison with the scandal of world hunger, with human rights violations and the plight of political prisoners, with oppressive regimes of the right or left, the real or imagined oppression of white, middle - class American women seems a secondary, even trivial, concern.

For them, using «Lord» can make either the deity or Jesus of Nazareth seem terribly remote, excessively masculine, and probably oppressive.

Seventies feminism went a long way to freeing women from that kind of oppressive thinking, but stopped short at mothering and now frequently seems to reinforce controlling attitudes.

Yes, democracy is the norm in many African countries but it seems as if our definition of democracy is skewed in favour of life presidents and oppressive regimes.

It may seem that fighting an electoral autocracy or even full - fleshed dictatorships is futile and restoring democracy impossible, because of government's oppressive control of institutions, elections, media, police and resources.

Certainly the ring of steel surrounding the conference centre here in Manchester seemed smaller than in recent years and the security was noticeably less oppressive.

The oppressive pressure, Raffles noted, «seemed to forbode an earthquake.»

The threesome, best buds since college and now in their forties, include a kindly but somewhat maladjusted party - store owner; an easygoing part - time actor whose glory days seem to be behind him; and a pressured family man who works at his oppressive father's car dealership.

Poison fog, oppressive heat, mutated monkeys, asphixiating blood rain, vicious competitors: there seems to be nowhere to hide untill Katniss and her allies unlock the secret of the Arena and work out a strategy to survive, and to fight back.

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.

But its sweet, sentimental - but - not - cloying tribute to the power of love to bridge differences and defy oppressive societal norms seems to be connecting with a broad range of voters.

Anton (production designer for Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket) Furst's Gotham City is an unique creation: a dark, brooding and oppressive yet fantastic place that «seems like hell has burst from the pavements» as someone has put it.

The parents with two young children seem extraordinarily calm, the Jews staring at near - certain death reveal no jitters, and as the days wear on, as the heat in the unused terminal becomes oppressive, and as the toilets run dry, the desperation never seems at breaking point.

This is an oppressive scenario, and The Hunger Games, based on the first book in a trilogy of young adult books by Suzanne Collins (who co-wrote the screenplay with director Gary Ross and Billy Ray), is disconnected from that reality setup, favoring the spectacle of its second act and seeming to buy into the very dangerous game it attempts to critique.

Since Amores Perros, he had made his career on dark, oppressive and depressing takes on the interconnectedness of life in films like 21 Grams and Biutiful, so the prospect of a comedy from the man seemed odd.

As Rogue One: A Star Wars Story approaches, there is apparently a group of alleged Star Wars fans (I say «alleged» because they seem to thoroughly misunderstand everything the franchise is about) trying to urge people to #DumpStarWars, because they're apparently surprised that the franchise is about fighting an oppressive power that takes people's rights away.

Having been born and bred in China, Zhao seems to have a visceral feel for authoritarian government, an oppressive state, and the nature of stifling homogeneity.

It is a moonless night, dark and rare, and the heat is oppressive, the kind of heat where a deep breath leaves you unsatisfied, suspicious that there was nothing life - giving at all in what you've inhaled, and you are left air - hungry, wet at the pits, forehead greasy with sweat, wishing for the night to be over, for your daughters to exhaust their energy, to cool their dense, hot centers enough to sleep for one more night in this summer that seems to stretch into your future like a planetary ring full of debris, circling forever around something it can't escape.

She is determined to make a go of it, although almost everyone and everything — including the town's oppressive social arbiter, the neighboring fishmonger and the poltergeist that apparently haunts the building — seem to want to get in her way.

It is worth it in the oppressive humidity that seems to be always present here.

Rooms are rather dark, and the decor is predominantly brown with exposed brick and dark wooden furniture, but high traditional ceilings with exposed beams make it seem more cosy than oppressive and together with the sleepy location is just the right combo for getting a good nights sleep.

Now there's no problem with linearity, and a dark, oppressive maze is certainly a useful way of scaring the player, but every area the player can travel to seems to be a web of similar - looking tunnels and it's not unlikely that you'll get lost.

September 7 — October 14, 2017 The paintings in Gustavo Acosta's «Inventory of Omissions» may initially seem like discrete chapters in a visual essay on the oppressive bleakness of the modern city, but such a reading misses the point of his static but intensely hued portrayals of sites in Havana, Miami, New York, and Aleppo.

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.

Which is why walking around the hallways of large, successful companies can often seem so oppressive to somebody new to it.

Any talk with Fraser is an exciting one — she is known to be opinionated — but this one, which focuses on strategies that artists can use for resisting oppressive political regimes, seems particularly promising.

Featuring a bevy of life - size burlap puppets hung from the booth's walls, there is something scary and vaguely oppressive about these effigies in everyday clothes whose arrangements and shabby condition seems to suggest the plight of migrants on the move.

Greg Craven and others seem to forget that oppressive laws and economic ruin brings out the nasty side of humanity.

The Court of Appeal in Imerman therefore seems to be suggesting that if wives discover documentation, they are to rely upon their memory of the documents seen or embark upon a course of action well after the horse has bolted which could prove prohibitively expensive, and which has previously been judged «oppressive» and «a rare weapon for use in extreme or exceptional circumstances» (Burgess v Burgess).

That book, which asks what a judge should do «when he must hand down a ruling based on a law that he considers unjust or oppressive,» will be or seem to be of renewed interest under the current regime.

Longmore LJ stated: «It seems to me that the phrase «oppressive and unacceptable» as used by Lord Nicholls [in Majrowski] is the same as «oppressive and unreasonable» used by Lord Phillips in Thomas v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2001] EWCA Civ 1233.