11.   Helms does not deny that the Taliban conducted an oppressive regime, particularly for women.

12.   If human rights do not improve, the IOC could be seen as legitimizing an oppressive regime.

13.   In your previous life, you were tortured and jailed by the brutally oppressive regime.

14.   Oppressive regimes can still track down their electronic critics at home and impose retribution.

15.   Other groups have accused CSI of unintentionally fuelling market demand for slaves by giving money to an oppressive regime.

16.   The book also plots the disillusionment of two friends who must find their own moral footing in an oppressive regime they once boosted to power.

17.   These include Miami grand juries that will not indict hijackers who are often portrayed here as having engineered daring rescues from an oppressive socialist regime.

18.   Today there are thousands of Americans who fled the oppressive regimes of Libya and Syria, Iraq and Iran.

19.   Two decades ago, Fratila and her husband defected to the United States from Romania, leaving behind an oppressive communist regime and two young children.

20.   Critics, especially conservatives, charge the PDS feeds on eastern resentment and is merely a lobby for former pillars of an oppressive regime.