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I feel as if I had fire and ice within me, and the air is so oppressive.

HALF a year since the Arabs began to shake off their oppressive slumber, the picture is patchy.

To suggest that this is the result of a revolution against an oppressive government or the consequences of welfare reform is total nonsense.

Like every young man at his age, he felt a vague and oppressive emotion surging up in his heart.

Downstairs, in the bar, it had a much more friendly atmosphere, but upstairs felt oppressive and claustrophobic.

It was a decision to leave a particularly oppressive and restrictive way of living and to try living differently.

He emitted a laboured breath, as if the scene were getting rather oppressive to his heart, or to his conscience, or to his gentility .

The rule of the tsars was so oppressive that it did not take much to provoke the masses into a revolution.

There was no view anywhere, nothing but the oppressive and silent scrub.

A dystopia is usually characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government, or some other kind of oppressive social control.

Are the newcomers prepared to shoulder some of the burdens which we have suddenly discovered to be oppressive?

The atmosphere of the room was almost oppressive for the rich odours of perfumes in bottles whose gold stoppers had not been replaced.

Nowhere did we stop long enough to get a particularized impression, but the general sense of vague and oppressive wonder grew upon me.

Ever since morning the air had been oppressive, as though it were holding its breath.

The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects.

There are few other indoor spaces, she said, where she can entertain the children free on an oppressive summer afternoon.

Looking out her window she noticed the sky had become overcast. Low rounded oddly colored clouds were forming. It was still and oppressive.

I felt stunned by the awful event; and my memory unavoidably recurred to former times with a sort of oppressive sadness.

And I'm proud that the State Department is already working in more than 40 countries to help individuals silenced by oppressive governments.

Cleaning away dirt, her contributors suggest, can be healing or oppressive, comforting or obsessive, or each of these at different times.

As a licensed law enforcer of the Empire, Fett worked for that oppressive government on numerous occasions.

He tried to get Becky to talk, but her sorrows were too oppressive, all her hopes were gone.

In the trilogy, a young streetwise girl becomes enmeshed in an epic struggle to ultimately defeat the oppressive forces of a senile God.

If German leadership is to avoid being oppressive, it must recognise that fiscal union cannot be a one-sided affair.

He stepped into the parlour and stood for a few moments looking vacantly at the floor. The silence grew oppressive.

We have rained here , yesterday one down all day long. The weather is lowering , lets me feel very oppressive.

The sun is blazing down and the heat waves are oppressive.

Nonetheless, the Bank says the burden of malaria remains oppressive and needs more attention.

because tumor is oppressive , grow the tumour in pelvic cavity rectum , the appearance of defecate is not a circle however flat look.

The silence on the top level was oppressive, and I thought it my duty to break the ice.

Through the glaring sun and oppressive humidity, through the dark and the cold.

And she was alone with her gray baby anchor, who got so oppressive that eventually sank her.

The dawn was sunless , the sky a grey, slate colour, similar in its oppressive, wintry aspect to many other mornings they had known.

It might be aggravating it when revenues and resources are being paid into coffers of hugely corrupt and oppressive governments.

Politically, the Internet has been able to massively empower individuals suffering under oppressive governments.

They recognized that the violence and the destruction were not ends in themselves but part of a necessary challenge to an oppressive system.

But like a golden shaft of sun piercing the winter sky, a singular truth shatters the oppressive gloom: Death Is Not the End !

I don't know how you could like this clunky wood. It's oppressive.

My memory unavoidably recurred to former times with a sort of oppressive sadness .

The oppressive weather lasted only a few days.

Planted in the most unlikely of places, in the heart of this oppressive climate.

The heat was oppressive and we still had 250 miles to go the next day.

Chinese cities ground to a standstill during this year's gaokao, moved up a month to avoid the oppressive summer heat.

You just have to try really hard to not be so oppressive and controlling in your affections.

The grim daily life under Ceausescu's oppressive regime and the harsh treatment of Romanian Germans has featured strongly in her works.

A two-hour drive north of Beijing's oppressive smog and colorless high-rises, the town provides a surreal sense of escape.

We accept that kind of deception as part of a legitimate military operation designed to thwart oppressive forces.

They claim the veil is a symbol of a "divided Britain" , that it's a potential security threat and oppressive to women.

Too much plant not only can create oppressive sense, also can contend for the oxygen in air with you.

These places are cabined without inflexible square, can cast off the oppressive feeling of the box temporarily.

Mariana views saving money 'as a sort of game' instead of something oppressive.

She could feel alone with the earth and the sky, away from the oppressive masquerade of ages.

Defying their stereotype as victims of oppressive patriarchies, Arab women have made their presence a defining feature of the Arab spring.

Instead, he would find it unduly difficult and oppressive and his life worthless and meaningless. Then how could he live a magnificent life?

'I directed one of the great oppressive organs of Gadhafi's government, ' Mr. Ben Jumaa said Thursday.

In summer, the heat is oppressive, the air fetid and thick with the sound of cicadas.

The organizers and participants acknowledge that engagement with an oppressive government is a thorny issue.

The subsystem of signals simulates echo signal, receiver-noise, clutter and oppressive jam, which can be selected flexibility.

As the violence escalates, the outside world no longer has the easy option of simply backing the "reform" of corrupt and oppressive regimes.

It is a globally recognized symbol of the end of a world divided by oppressive communist regimes.

These transportation structures, like overpasses and highways all make clear the artist's impression of the city with oppressive volumes.

Huck decided to escape from that oppressive living environment and culture education to find his ideal free life.

Saw once more while convenient your subject, you have been oppressive , closes our trifling thing?

Parts of the country are in open revolt against the corrupt and oppressive regime in Sana'a.

History Occasionally these patients complain of a constant oppressive dull ache or pressure in the chest.

"Quite oppressive, " said the man next him.

These difficulties include an oppressive tax system and a labour code that makes firms wary of hiring.

Russia went from being an oppressive monarchy to having some of the most socially progressive goals of the time period.

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The purpose is to establish in the territory an effective UN presence in replacement of the oppressive illegal regime.

The demonstrators pushed a moral cause: to free the poor Tibetans from an oppressive communist government.

"Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off" ( Herbert Spencer).

Muammar Gaddafi's brutal crackdown of a nationwide revolt against his oppressive leadership will also come under Ocampo's scrutiny.

The fact that some people compare carrots to cows proves how muck-deep in oppressive thought meat-eaters truly are.

It has a dark, oppressive look that perfectly suited the environment we wanted to create for the orphanage.

But he does not shrink from detailing the worst abuses of Chiang's oppressive rule both on the mainland and on Taiwan.

The weather in morning is special of oppressive heat, see a younger brother the sweat on the face, I also had some heartache.

The heat was oppressive, and the air was thick with itching smoke.

Residents living near the Expo site have complained about oppressive security measures.

Pray for every leader of the oppressive government of Saudi Arabia to surrender their lives to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord this year.

It is sad that so many totally oppressive regimes around the world happen to be Muslim.

That makes investors fear that the only way to relieve oppressive debt burdens is through default.

There is an absolute and oppressive darkness to be found only in the deep wilderness at night.

They may see it as a rejection of the oppressive attitudes of the older generation.

When people aren't free to think their own thoughts, the atmosphere has become too oppressive .

Their surging willingness contrast the oppressive or even boring negotiations between governments!

Protect us from the oppressive burden of further taxation so that we may continue our glad giving to the cause of the gospel.

The people of his day needed to know that the oppressive Roman government would not have the last word on history.

But I also know that we need not choose between a chaotic and unforgiving capitalism and an oppressive government-run economy.

The military does have the right to defend us against an oppressive government.

While shrouded in an oppressive gloom we're handed over to the dream.

The book provides three views of life under an increasingly oppressive and unpredictable regime.

First was the importance of protecting individuals who had spoken candidly to American diplomats in oppressive countries.

Arrive gravid and terminal, increscent uterus and fetal show an oppressive rectum first, also can cause defecate difficulty.

Like Iranians before them, Egyptians may neither forget, nor forgive, those who kept them under the thumb of an oppressive ruler.

Could oppressive regimes potentially come to face legal consequences as a result of evidence posted on WikiLeaks?

The weather at this time of the year is muggy and oppressive.

This, and the oppressive behavior of the region's US-sponsored dictators, could in turn boost anti-American sentiments.

One could not help but notice the absolutely appalling physical conditions and the overwhelming, oppressive atmosphere of hopelessness.

The existing system in this country is stinking, rotten, corrupt , oppressive, spiritually bankrupt.

I have a very deep impression of the claustrophobic, oppressive even, atmosphere on the train, and the physical exhaustion of travel.

This wisdom born of experience can be exercised without being oppressive .

They "show up [as] day after day of rainfall in India and Pakistan . . . and day after day of oppressive conditions in western Russia. "

But inequality does not have to be as harsh, oppressive and polarized as it is in America today.

An excess of house plants in a small flat can be oppressive.

We support them in their struggle against a repressive, oppressive regime.

Germany's chancellor has been excoriated in turn for absent and for oppressive leadership.

A human rights group says two international oil firms are providing support for Burma's oppressive military regime.

I think it will embolden protesters across the Arab world as it is a precedent to oppressive regimes.

If one's first love is oppressive and Tediously long, I wonder it is strange or not.

An outsider to the place, and not socialized into its oppressive regime, Davidson inspires a revolt.

Oppressive heat and waves of toxic smog in Moscow have seen the death rate reach 700 a day, a senior Russian health official said today.

Gandhi's battle was not against white skin, but against oppressive colonialism.

About 10 suffer from hypertension, diabetes, dental and respiratory infections and skin lesions from the mine's oppressive humidity.

The logical conclusion is that the greatest tool for bringing about the end of oppressive employers is the agenda book or calendar.

By midday the irk of his pack became too oppressive.

It urged the authorities to stop the fascist oppressive rule.

Then there are the typhoons, the oppressive humidity, the boiling summers. Soil is another problem.

Girl, has that kind of approaching from oppressive acting with constraint.

The existing system in this country is stinking , rotten, corrupt, oppressive.

Less oppressive regimes would rather feed people, or possibly fight wars in foreign lands.

Freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions.

Most of all, an oppressive, "heavy" atmosphere hung over the schoolyard.

A few people have the energy to resist this oppressive world, and they do so on a grand scale.

After inserting conduit, abdomen uses gasbag pressurization , oppressive vein finishing speech, in order to reduce haemal circumfluence.

Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America.

As history points out, regimes become oppressive when they're fearful about keeping control.

When you finally wake up and realize it's all B. S. , you've taken the first step towards freedom from this oppressive system.

Had I not enjoyed and believed in the work I was doing, the longer working days would have seemed oppressive.

ELIZA: Hmm. That sounds pretty oppressive for the kids. Don't they ever relax?

Belief in Jesus Christ offers freedom no matter how oppressive the govt you live under.

They then feed your fears through oppressive laws and impositions .

At times, this can feel oppressive; but it also creates a climate of trust.

Without liberty, security is oppressive.

It does not liberate man, it enslaves man. It is oppressive, it is ugly.

Mandatory 24-hour improvement and enrichment, have, in other words, their oppressive side.

Aah , summer ? the season of relentless sun and oppressive heat.

To become less oppressive, troublesome, or severe.

Such souls fractured in nuclear disasters , and are oppressive and in great pain.

We are all incomplete: we all need the love which is secure, rather than oppressive, we need mutual forgiveness, to thrive.

India's oppressive poverty put him off altogether after a visit to Chennai.

Chinese people will one day rise up against their own oppressive regime.

She goes on to add that many countries have attempted similar oppressive policies and they have always ended in failure.

TPC: Did you say "elf" ? I hate elves! Stupid oppressive kinsmen, they should all die painfully!

I read about the devastation, the wars, the oppressive rule of the Taliban, and the devastating loss of the ancient Buddha statues.

An oppressive or nightmarish burden.

The continuous hot weather is oppressive.

fatuity oppressive, heavy taxes, the people's pain, resentment everywhere.

Until last year, Myanmar had been led by an oppressive military junta.

Zeena herself, from an oppressive reality, had faded into an unsubstantial shade.

A responsibility regarded as oppressive.

A job that I had been proud of had turned into something oppressive and negative and about telling lies.

This is not people expressing their anger against an oppressive state.

is to keep the right of people to overthrow an oppressive government through their arm.

So the Greeks were the first oppressive power that people thought they could overthrow this way.

The government and the armed business networks behind it are no less oppressive than the Taliban.

I think that would only exacerbate a situation where people feel trapped by oppressive work schedules.

It 's muggy and oppressive.

The orientation of oppressive officials has effects on not only evaluation on WU Ze tian but also peoples understanding on Wuzhou society.

Migrants who fled oppressive governments, for example, can hardly be expected to bankroll the regimes that drove them away.

I rushed out of the room because the oppressive air stifled me.

I was so oppressive that I hesitated.

On the other hand, also oppressive feeling creates the vacuum that furniture puts.

Assessment: Oppressive heat was no doubt on the designer's mind when creating these shoes;

the emancipation of men's minds from ancient superstitions in which barbarous practices and oppressive fears are often rooted ;

When I tried to understand all this, it was oppressive to me,

If formed on equal and just principles, it can not be oppressive.

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For us in Eastern Europe, perhaps the most oppressive and difficult indignity was the wall of denials

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his desire for justice leads to a brutally oppressive totalitarian regime;

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Influences of oppressive jam on effectiveness of ground early warning radar

While shrouded in an oppressive gloom

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Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,

Swelter: to suffer from oppressive heat

The oppressive and scorching sun

IT is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you

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