The act of subjugating by cruelty.
A feeling of being oppressed.
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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