Even as he rails against the oppressive power of "those folks" and everything they stand for, Babbitt remains, to the last, one of them.

He was never a communist and was always opposed to the oppressive power of the Communist Party.

The oppressive power of him was overwhelming.

The song then grew into a sprawling epic allegory about vanquishing the oppressive "powers that be".

In 1949 the Nationalist armies defeated on the mainland came to Taiwan as an oppressive occupying power.

He said: "Behind these satanic acts can be found the oppressive powers and the Zionist regime."

Herewiss's Fire, for so long a blaze within him, was now faint under a blanket of oppressive power.

The philosopher Theodor Adorno also argued that mass culture was an instrument of oppressive power.

Eating the fruit of Knowledge is the first act of human salvation from cruel, oppressive powers.

Third, there is the oppressive power of the past.