"The people we send would have experience in dealing with the opposition in Nicaragua or other oppressive societies."

This, her best-known work, is the story of a woman trapped in the confines of an oppressive society.

"They haven't been there," she said of Cuba and its Communist, oppressive society.

It occurs in overly oppressive societies, causing people to prefer to die than to carry on living within their society.

There's the movie itself, whose message preaches individual empowerment over an oppressive society.

This provision is vital, since in oppressive societies workers would only voice discontent to groups that have gained their trust.

Or, I mean, to throw off the chains of our sexually oppressive society.

They made no secret of their goals - to overhaul a "corrupt and oppressive" society.

The police clearly are representatives of an oppressive society in the film.

In the 1970s, the feminists painted women as helpless victims of an oppressive male-dominated society.