1.   It was time to sing about hunger strikes, oppressive British rule and the Irish Republican Army.

2.   The Harvard name attached to projects in Burma would legitimize the regime, which takes any sign of cooperation as endorsement of its oppressive rule.

3.   You would have thought the country had been liberated from oppressive foreign rule.

4.   Over three decades of oppressive rule, his government was accused of widespread human rights violations, including the assassination and torture of political opponents.

5.   And it has called for moral renewal in a country where disobeying the authorities was an act of defiance against oppressive rule.

6.   China is acutely sensitive to criticism of its often oppressive rule over the Himalayan region.

7.   Oil-rich Nigeria became a pariah state under Abacha, who died of a heart attack in June after five years of oppressive rule.

8.   Rugby has always been a white-dominated sport in South Africa and was hated by blacks as a symbol of apartheid and oppressive white rule.

9.   The peaceful revolt born of police brutality ended four decades of the oppressive communist rule in Czechoslovakia.

10.   Those reforms spelled the end of three decades of oppressive rule by former dictator Kamuzu Banda.