It took less than two minutes to get Jarvis on the line, two minutes during which the room's silence grew increasingly oppressive.

Friuli was subject to increasingly oppressive fiscal pressures and its industries and commercial activity went into complete crisis.

The graphic novel noir feel is becoming increasingly oppressive, and everyone is just so grim.

The Government begins a program of nationalization, and the armed forces play an increasingly oppressive role in the country's political life.

As the climate grew increasingly oppressive, they began spying for the Russians.

They were years of growing political and social unrest during which Dutch rule became increasingly oppressive.

How much longer will this increasingly oppressive, unbearable weight press I down on us?

The Habsburg government, fearing unrest and independence efforts, took increasingly oppressive measures to curb the nationalist movement.

As spring progressed Thetis found her new life increasingly oppressive.

The Shah's regime became increasingly oppressive, brutal, corrupt, and extravagant.