Some of the most oppressive states in the world have written constitutions.

Malaysia is one of the most viciously racist and oppressive states on the planet.

In the past, the word meant oppressive state of things.

Crust punk songs are often about nuclear war, militarism, animal rights, police, personal grievances, oppressive states and fascism.

Hindutva, to Thirumavalavan, is the essence of the oppressive Indian state.

He sees the Brazilian government as an example of an oppressive state using theatre to propagate its oppressive system.

His play uses the 17th-century Catholic church as a chilling metaphor for the oppressive Soviet state.

This was our time to be victims of the oppressive state.

Without some novel way to reform the world's oppressive states, simple research-suppression movements cannot have total success.

Since the war, the common perception of North Korea is that of an oppressive state.