The climate is moist and sometimes oppressively hot, though pleasant on the whole.
The climate is inclement in winter and oppressively hot in midsummer.
Thrasydaeus, son of Theron of Agrigentum, seems to have ruled the city oppressively, but an appeal made to Hiero of Syracuse, Gelon's brother, was betrayed by him to Theron; the latter massacred all his enemies and in the following year resettled the town.
Bombay Island itself, though in general cooled by the sea breeze, is oppressively hot during May and October.
The Covenant was no doubt an act of revolt against legal authority, and can only be justified on the ground that the crown had for many years acted oppressively and illegally in its attempt to coerce Scotland into a religious system alien to the country, and that the subjects were entitled to free themselves from tyranny.