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How to use oppression in a sentence

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What a breathtakingly practical way of helping a downtrodden group get going after decades of oppression.
The unilateral imposition of these standards upon nations throughout the world is no less than a form of neocolonialism and economic oppression.
Fifty-one years ago, my father decided to leave his country of birth, to seek a life free from socio-political oppression.
The destruction of both wall and statue is symbolic of breaking free from oppression, and the elation on the faces of the people was the same.
This applies to cases in which the religious sign is a symbol of oppression and runs counter to the dignity and freedom of its wearer.
This is a pattern of oppression that has been repeated for centuries, often in the most violent and brutal of ways.
At the same time, we continued to allow slavery, the oppression of women, the brutalization of Native Americans, etc.
This year we are again entering an age of impulse, urge and oppression and of Sturm und Drang.
Both novels focus on the desolation of a family trapped in the quagmire of poverty, victimization, and oppression in the Harlem ghetto.
They spilt their blood on foreign lands for us so that we can be free of oppression and divisiveness and so that this nation can be united.
The work is violently powerful, its overriding message being the oppression of the Mexican lower classes.
Its first act has been to draft a new democratic constitution which will outlaw oppression of the former communist bureaucracy.
It is arguable that other forms of oppression, such as gender oppression, sexism, ableism, ageism, etc., are also produced by capitalism.
At his court hearing he called upon people to non-violently resist war and oppression.
This is a grim, bleak little movie with precious little emotion to it and a real sense of oppression.
Accordingly the Divisional Court allowed the appeal, remitted the matter to the arbitrator and stayed the oppression remedy proceeding.
In an absurdist prose poem he wrote at the time, renewal is associated with class-based oppression.
We might describe feminism as a political project to understand and, therefore, to change women's inequality, exploitation, or oppression.
Tens of millions around the globe see it, with justification, as an emblem of their oppression and misery.
Their enclosed spaces offer shelter and protection without any sense of oppression.
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Examples from Classical Literature
His self-mastery is the gift of his creator, and oppression, only, can take it away.
His soul tried to escape the oppression of this cosmic mechanism, and to leave the slavery of Ananke.
Nowhere in the Balkan Peninsula has there been so much oppression and bloodshed on account of nationality.
It was a mockery of their bravado, a belittlement of their bluff and swagger in the brief day of their oppression.
The United States could have accepted the permanent division of Europe, and been complicit in the oppression of others.
The crowds delusion of persecution, conspiracy, or oppression is thus a defense mechanism of this nature.
The world was full of oppression, and envy, and drunkenness, and vain pleasures.
The intolerable oppression upon trade, from the exorbitance of wages and insolence of mariners, would be taken off.
The principal cause of the Reformation was the general corruption of the Church and the flagrancy of its oppression.
No modern instance of wrong and oppression can approach this Fructidor of the sixties in the South.
The fact that Godolphin was slain, it must be confessed, was not in itself the source of his oppression.
Of these, Slovakia suffered perhaps the most under the scorn, oppression, and exploitation of the Magyar oligarchy.
I had a soreness at my heart, an oppression on my spirits, which weighed me down.
Usury is both the basis of the incorporation and the instrument of its oppression.
There is the fatality of dogmas, the oppression of human laws, the inexorability of nature.
First, there is the fatality of dogmas, then the oppression of human laws, and finally the inexorability of nature.
The South could not in 1861 justify her right to revolution, for there was no oppression nor invalidation of rights.
The laborer was appealed to as one suffering from oppression and injustice.
The oppression of the workingwomen has its effect also on men through its tendency to lower wages.
Were it not for the oppression of his futile and philoprogenitive presence, imaginative writers would be poets and romancers.
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