oppressive conditions

collocation in English

meaningsofoppressiveandcondition

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oppressive
adjective
uk
/əˈpres.ɪv/us
/əˈpres.ɪv/
cruel ...
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condition
noun
uk
/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/us
/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
the particular state that something or someone ...
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(Definition ofoppressiveandconditionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It would therefore seem to me to be a veryoppressivecondition.
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The times were just not right for accepting that men under dramatically oppressive conditions would engage in such practices.
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But she was also quick to promote the rave community's willingness to cooperate even under terrible and oppressive conditions.
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Kanak men were invariably the ones imprisoned for speaking out in public against the oppressive conditions under which they were forced to work.
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Maya was used predominantly at home and among work teams, where it provided a safe code in which to vent about oppressive conditions.
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Kru labourers were imported for the latter and, not surprisingly, worked under oppressive conditions.
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Does he accept that there are serious oppressive conditions in some of our penal institutions?
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It will not rid them of oppressive conditions against pets and, too often, even against children.
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There was a dispute, and at this moment a man is in prison there, serving a sentence of 10 years' hard labour, for organising his fellow men against oppressive conditions.
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The oppressive conditions coupled with the inability to make changes compelled students, activists, and teachers to meet and discuss the situation.
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According to this narrative, any well-intentioned attempt to fundamentally change the status quo is naively utopian and will result in more oppressive conditions.
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Violence and disorder during actual outbreaks usually result from oppressive conditions that have obtained in a particular shop or factory or in a particular industry.
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Berleant brings up other extreme situations that provoke perceptual injury or damage as contemporary urban overcrowding and visual over stimulation, space pollution, claustrophobic and oppressive conditions.
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