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"Oppression" in a Sentence (16 examples)
They rose against oppression.
She reached against oppression.
Ethnic minorities struggle against prejudice, poverty, and oppression.
Many have suffered oppression and misery for a long period of time under the rule of colonialism.
Many have long suffered oppression and hardship under colonialism.
George Eliot is subtly subversive: there are have-nots on every fringe, and her women collaborate in exquisitely detailed mutual oppression.
One day's freedom is better than ten years of oppression.
We need to fight against women's oppression.
North Africans don't tolerate injustice and oppression.
They also wanted freedom of religion because of the heavy oppression of the Catholic Church. Over time these social pressures caused a revolution in France.
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Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
"Tibet challenges the conscience of the world," I told the audience at a gathering outside the town's main temple. "If freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China's oppression in China and Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world."
Extreme freedom is followed by extreme oppression, said Plato.
We're choosing to use "anti-Jewishness" [rather than "anti-Semitism"] in recognition of the separate experiences and different oppressions of other peoples who also claim the name of "Semite."
Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun.
[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
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