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oppressive
1. becoming an oppressive shroud on the world, especially in the late afternoon dusk,
2. The trees had an oppressive, brooding,
3. silently oppressive and acute
4. The sudden silence is oppressive
5. feel like they'd already reached the oppressive heat of the
6. monotony of the plains was becoming almost oppressive
7. sleep), and looked forward to leaving the oppressive mood
8. The public taxes, to which they were subject, were as irregular and oppressive as the services The ancient lords, though extremely unwilling to grant, themselves, any pecuniary aid to their sovereign, easily allowed him to tallage, as they called it, their tenants, and had not knowledge enough to foresee how much this must, in the end, affect their own revenue
9. Oppressive heat came from above and as she wearily looked over her shoulder, she was greeted by the sight of the hovering beast, its flashing eyes fixed on her vulnerable form and preparing to exact its finishing blitz
10. The oppressive sense of aloneness took the latter again and he gasped for breath slightly as he looked forward
11. In the colonies of all those three nations, too, the ecclesiastical government is extremely oppressive
12. The profit of those merchants would be almost equally exorbitant and oppressive
13. In a more advanced state, they might be really oppressive and insupportable
14. But though the policy of Great Britain, with regard to the trade of her colonies, has been dictated by the same mercantile spirit as that of other nations, it has, however, upon the whole, been less illiberal and oppressive than that of any of them
15. The best of them all, that of England, is only somewhat less illiberal and oppressive than that of any of the rest
16. The silence seeped back in, more oppressive than it was before
17. Such advantageous situations have enabled those two colonies to surmount all the obstacles which the oppressive genius of an exclusive company may have occasionally opposed to their growth
18. If they are suffered to act as they could wish, they will establish this monopoly openly and directly, by fairly prohibiting all other people from trading in the articles in which they choose to deal; and this, perhaps, is the best and least oppressive way of establishing it
19. But the cruellest of our revenue laws, I will venture to affirm, are mild and gentle, in comparison to some of those which the clamour of our merchants and manufacturers has extorted from the legisiature, for the support of their own absurd and oppressive monopolies
20. In order to prevent exportation, the whole inland commerce of wool is laid under very burdensome and oppressive restrictions
21. A very oppressive rule, especially in the ways of religion
22. He seems not to have considered, that in the political body, the natural effort which every man is continually making to better his own condition, is a principle of preservation capable of preventing and correcting, in many respects, the bad effects of a political economy, in some degree both partial and oppressive
23. In France, under the administration of the intendants, the application is not always more judicious, and the exaction is frequently the most cruel and oppressive
24. About the middle of the last century, the fine for admission was fifty, and at one time one hundred pounds, and the conduct of the company was said to be extremely oppressive
25. represented both these and the Hamburgh company as extremely oppressive, and imputed to their bad management the low state of the trade, which we at that time carried on to the countries comprehended within their respective charters
26. But though such companies may not, in the present times, be very oppressive, they are certainly altogether useless
27. In this state of things, therefore, this company was, in every respect, a strict and oppressive monopoly
28. 51 ), seems to have had two distinct objects in view; first, to restrain effectually the oppressive and monopolizing spirit which is natural to the directors of a regulated company ; and, secondly, to force them, as much as possible, to give an attention, which is not natural to them, towards the maintenance of forts and garrisons
29. This room had unequivocally become a prison: sparse and oppressive, that man her jailer
30. The almost totally still air made it feel all the more oppressive
31. The light was dim in the oppressive darkness of the tunnel
32. But so severe, or, rather, indeed, so oppressive a law, could never have been executed in such free countries, had not the diligence of the clergy beforehand converted to the established church the whole body of the people, with the exception of, perhaps, a few individuals only
33. But if the lands of Great Britain, in the present state of their cultivation, do not afford a rent of more than twenty millions a-year, they could not well afford the half, most probably not the fourth part of that rent, if they all belonged to a single proprietor, and were put under the negligent, expensive, and oppressive management of his factors and agents
34. Had silver risen considerably in its value, as it seems to have done in the course of the two centuries which preceded the discovery of the mines of America, the constancy of the valuation might have proved very oppressive to the landlord
35. That tax would be cruel and oppressive, which aggravated their loss, by taking from them any part of his succession
36. Such taxes, therefore, fall almost always upon a necessitous person, and must, therefore, be frequently very cruel and oppressive
37. withstanding all its natural resources, languishes under an oppressive load of the same kind
38. considerable liberation of the public revenue had been brought about, and growing in its progress as expensive as the last war, may, from irresistible necessity, render the British system of taxation as oppressive as that of Holland, or even as that of Spain
39. I was still healing from my mother’s death and the job situation was very oppressive and it took a lot of energy just to maintain
40. By a union with Great Britain, the greater part of people of all ranks in Ireland would gain an equally complete deliverance from a much more oppressive aristocracy ; an aristocracy not founded, like that of Scotland, in the natural and respectable distinctions of birth and fortune, but in the most odious of all distinctions, those of religious and political prejudices; distinctions which, more than any other, animate both the insolence of the oppressors, and the hatred and indignation of the oppressed, and which commonly render the inhabitants of the same country more hostile to one another than those of different countries ever are
41. No oppressive aristocracy has ever prevailed in the colonies
42. The heat was too oppressive
43. The chosen operative, of course, complied with the rules of the Temporal Directive: he was not from the time of Earth's crisis, and his role did not allow him to effect a [noticeable] change in the predicted time-line; his apparent mission was merely to assist a captive (Gerrid Lytum, former employee of the Darangi via the Nine committee) who had been subjugated within an artificial reality of his own creation by an oppressive Artificial Intelligence
44. Remember, you will be releasing the slaves from inhuman torture and oppressive slavery
45. Regrettably our Nationalists soon proved to the world that they had no inbuilt sense of fairness, especially toward their black servants who had protested: "give me the right to vote on the basis of one man one vote since I am also born here and lived here all my life—in fact I am a South African even if I am black!" But the Afrikaner flatly refused, and tried all sorts of other nonsense to like Homelands, and oppressive laws to keep themselves in power
46. individual break through the oppressive, judging, and restrictive limitations of the past
47. Skelda sighed deeply, entering his sleeping chamber, glad to be out of the oppressive tunnels
48. Shaking his head, Darkburst swallowed the bile that had risen in his throat, searching for an answer in the low, oppressive clouds
49. It was an unnatural place, oppressive and threatening
50. The chamber felt oppressive and the smallest noise, even his own soft breathing, echoed back to him from every direction