After the military junta of Jorge Videla came to power in 1976, the atmosphere in Argentina grew increasingly oppressive.

The atmosphere of the court ceased to be oppressive ; the light of a new liberalism shone in the highest places ; and the severity of the penal laws was considerably mitigated.

Escaping an oppressive political atmosphere in the capital, Ryti returned to his roots in Satakunta, where he established himself as a lawyer in Rauma.

The somewhat disquieting atmosphere of many of his Vedute ( views ) becomes dominant in his series of 16 prints of Carceri d ' Invenzione (" Imaginary Prisons ") whose " oppressive cyclopean architecture " conveys " dreams of fear and frustration ".

A hostile work environment exists when an employee experiences workplace harassment and fears going to work because of the offensive, intimidating, or oppressive atmosphere generated by the harasser.

Trumpets surround the stage to produce an inescapable call to judgement in the Tuba mirum ( the resulting combination of brass and choral quadruple-fortissimo markings resulting in some of the loudest unamplified music ever written ), and the almost oppressive atmosphere of the Rex tremendae creates a sense of unworthiness before the King of Tremendous Majesty.

After the military junta of Jorge Videla came to power in 1976, the atmosphere in Argentina grew increasingly oppressive.

A character based on him is central to Sarah Waters's award-winning novel Fingersmith: a man obsessively collecting and indexing pornography and works about human sexuality, in an atmosphere of oppressive Victorian hypocrisy.

The climate was hot and humid and frequent rainstorms made the atmosphere oppressive.

Throughout his career, the imperial censors and oppressive political atmosphere prevented Antonovych from openly expressing his political views which tended to be egalitarian and somewhat anarchistic.

The city was shown to be a brighter, more colourful place than Mega-City One, with an unpolluted ocean along its coastline and a less oppressive atmosphere.

Fritz Lang changed the locale from Staten Island to a fishing town in California, but he kept intact the oppressive seacoast atmosphere.

In his 1854 novel Hard Times, Charles Dickens describes the oppressive midsummer heat of the sooty, smoky factories of Coketown, " The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom ; and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert " ( book 2, chapter 1 ).

Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward notes: " Phantom Lady excepted, The Chase is the best cinematic equivalent of the dark, oppressive atmosphere that characterizes most of Cornell Woolrich's best fiction.

Another review by Julie Smithouser, of the Christian-right group Focus on the Family, said the book was, " Likely to be considered the weakest book in the series, Phoenix does feel less oppressive than the two most previous novels.

In his bestselling book Notes from a Small Island, he writes, ' Retford, I am pleased to report, is a delightful and charming place even under the sort of oppressive grey clouds that make far more celebrated towns seem dreary and tired.

In the book, Manchester scathingly posits, as the title suggests, that the Middle Ages were ten centuries of technological stagnation, short-sightedness, bloodshed, feudalism, and an oppressive Church wedged between the golden ages of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance.

The aim of his book, Fitzhugh claimed, was to show that " the unrestricted exploitation of so-called free society is more oppressive to the laborer than domestic slavery.

Walter Wink coined the term as part of an analysis of its impact on modern culture and its role in maintaining oppressive power structures in his book The Powers That Be.

" James Petras wrote that the book is " a series of brilliant illuminations and critical reflections on Jewish ethnocentrism and the hypocrisy of those who speak in the name of universal values and act tribal " which " uncovers the links between Jewish identity politics in the Diaspora with their ardent support for the oppressive policies of the Israeli state.

The book criticizes Islam as militant and oppressive, and provides a historical perspective of the Crusades arguing that they were a late response of European civilization to centuries of invasion and occupation which had begun at the turn of the 8th century in the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Sicily, France, and the majority of Eastern Europe.

It was described as a " rich treasure chest of a book " by Anthony Howard in The Daily Telegraph, who wrote of his " respect for the sweep and scope of the author's knowledge ", while Nick Cohen wrote in The Observer that it was " a tribute to Sandbrook's literary skill that his scholarship is never oppressive.

By the end of the book rioting and civil unrest sweep the United States, due to a combination of poor health, poor sanitation, lack of food, lack of services, ineffectiveness of services ( medical, policing ), disillusionment with government / companies, oppressive government, civil unrest, high incidence of birth defects ( pollution-induced ), and other factors ; all services ( military, government, private, infrastructure ) break down.

For it indicates, unmistakably, that the origins of Judaism were not in ‘ the Jewish people ’ and that the best and finest of Judaism today transcends the Jewish people .” At the end of this same book, Elmer Berger succinctly gave his definition: “ Judaism is to do justice and to have mercy and to walk humbly with God ; and all the rest is commentary and of secondary importance .” It was from this perspective that Elmer Berger carefully and specifically documented his case against Zionism and against the oppressive character of the Zionist state.

The recent history of the Dominican Republic is an almost classical study of the way in which even a professedly benevolent dictatorship tends to become oppressive.

* 2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping " an oppressive thumb " on its competitors.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

She is addicted to sleeping pills, absorbed in the shallow dramas played on her " parlor walls " ( flat-panel televisions ), and indifferent to the oppressive society around her.

Opennet connections are easy to use, but darknet connections are more secure against attackers on the network, and can make it difficult for an attacker ( such as an oppressive government ) to even determine that a user is running Freenet in the first place.

Most forms of feminism characterize patriarchy as an unjust social system that is oppressive to women.

The Saudeleur centralized form of absolute rule is characterized in Pohnpeian legend as becoming increasingly oppressive over several generations.

Their mission is to attack OZ directly, in order to rid the Alliance of its weapons and free the colonies from its oppressive rule.

Despite the facade of a mutant paradise, Nightcrawler, who intends on becoming a Genoshan resident, soon learns that Magneto is an oppressive ruler who unfairly incarcerates Genosha mutants who do not abide by his rules.

But for some African American musicians, the music called jazz is a reminder of an oppressive and racist society and restrictions on their artistic visions.

Philip Carrington states that there is no reason to question the authenticity of the Josephus passage on James, and elaborates the background by stating that Ananus continued to remain a power within the Jewish circles at the time even after being deposed, and that it is likely that the charges brought against James by Ananus were not only because of his Christian association but because he objected to the oppressive policies against the poor ; hence explaining the later indignation of the more moderate Jewish leaders.

" The best Jihad is the word of Justice in front of the oppressive Sultan.

This story describes an expedition from a Utopian Socialist Earth arriving at a Mars which is divided between two oppressive, warring empires.

The effect of circumstances on manorial economy is complex and at times contradictory: upland conditions tended to preserve peasant freedoms ( livestock husbandry in particular being less labour-intensive and therefore less demanding of villein services ); on the other hand, some upland areas of Europe showed some of the most oppressive manorial conditions, while lowland eastern England is credited with an exceptionally large free peasantry, in part a legacy of Scandinavian settlement.

* 1806 – Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.

In August the oppressive heat is punctuated by the rainy season, referred to as barsat, which brings relief in its wake by providing heavy rainfall.

Many radical feminists today still believe that transsexuality is oppressive to women, and genital reassignment surgery is a violation of human rights.

He is not a peasant but a yeoman, and his tales make no mention of the complaints of the peasants, such as oppressive taxes.

" Some commentators, recommending a hard stand against the practice, have found therapy inconsistent with a psychologist's ethical duties because " it is more ethical to let a client continue to struggle honestly with her or his identity than to collude, even peripherally, with a practice that is discriminatory, oppressive, and ultimately ineffective in its own stated ends.

Because the Sloughi is somewhat sensitive, its training should not be oppressive, and any punishment should be omitted.

For anarchists, state socialism is equivalent to state capitalism, hence oppressive and merely a shift from private capitalists to the state being the sole employer and capitalist.