1.   It offered only a short-term credit, and that hedged about with oppressive conditions.

2.   Writers have produced extraordinary work in conditions more oppressive than mine.

3.   And as rescuers grimly noted, those oppressive conditions would threaten any worker still alive and trapped in the facility.

4.   But lately he feels more like a laborer, and one with rather oppressive working conditions.

5.   Hot air will also preside in Texas where high humidity will combine with the heat to create oppressive conditions.

6.   Isolated storms will bring limited, fleeting relief from oppressive conditions.

7.   Oppressive conditions will prevail from the Great Lakes through the Southeast to the southern Plains.

8.   The oppressive conditions, and the feeling of isolation, may have served a purpose.

9.   The oppressive conditions result from a confluence of weather patterns.

10.   But local employers also face growing criticism because of oppressive working conditions and other unfair treatment faced by many of the foreign workers.