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They, no less than Asian companies, at times have an interest in low U.S. tariffs, treating oppressive Asian dictators with kid gloves, and so on.
What keeps his work from becoming campily oppressive (like the last, dreadful Batman picture) is his respect for the untranscendent flatness of ordinary life.
If Sinatra was the father of rock 'n' roll, as almost every tribute of the past few days has claimed, it was only Oedipally, as the oppressive father figure you were just itching to slay.
This fourth group--bands such as Whiskeytown, Moonshine Willy, and the Waco Brothers--uses country as a shock device, a flash of bad taste, and seems to view the genre as an oppressive religion.
Ottoman leaders had no interest in developing or investing in their dominions and, after the occasionally oppressive but often brilliant centuries of Venetian government, Crete slid back into the dark ages.