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Meanings of oppression in English
Usage of oppression in English
1
After a point, the fact of oppression fails to justify his actions.
2
Furthermore the work deals with themes such as institutional oppression and discrimination.
3
Few Poles were taken in during those postwar years of Soviet oppression.
4
Our community's problems are deeply rooted in centuries of pain and oppression.
5
Not just the absence of oppression but the presence of economic opportunity.
6
Taxes are a form of oppression, since no one owes anyone anything.
7
One might say prostitution, the oppression of labor, child labor, or war.
8
Where there is oppression, especially on ethnic grounds, nationalist agitation is legitimate.
9
He wanted to bring attention to the many tentacles of systemic oppression.
10
I don't think my work could in anyway enlighten people under oppression.
11
The oppression of women she says, operates differently to racism for example.
12
I have seen oppression in the name of religion, and of God.
13
An evilly disposed despot could have used it to practice unspeakable oppression.
14
He was an absolute sepulchre in the swallowing of oppression and ill-usage.
15
We retired to the Monastery of Cambuskenneth; but there oppression found us.
16
The world knows the history of our struggle against the Hapsburg oppression.
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Oppression through the time
Oppression across language varieties
South Africa
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United Kingdom
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Ireland
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