Prepositions after "oppress"

oppress by, in, for, over or with?

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In 58% of cases oppress by is used

They are oppressed by Pakistani males around them, as is.

It is doubtful that she ever had a feeling of being oppressed by public life.

I do not care if people shun ideas of how women are oppressed by the patriarchy.

If young kids/early teens were not oppressed by bullies they wouldn't have to express theyre anger in music.

She tells them that they are parasitised by the ungrateful poor and oppressed by intrusive, controlling governments.

In 10% of cases oppress in is used

That's not terribly likely to happen, is it? Men certainly aren't oppressed in this way.

In 6% of cases oppress for is used

Palestinians are persecuted and oppressed for their faith, ethnicity and presence.

In 6% of cases oppress over is used

I believe what we are all striving to be here is to be Equalists, any group that has been oppressed over the years will be emotional to some degree, because it effects them.

In 2% of cases oppress before is used

There is only so far people can be oppressed before enough of them withdraw consent and then things get ugly.

In 2% of cases oppress on is used

But I do know what I see, and the perception is that burqa-clad women are being oppressed on the grounds of gender alone and seem to be willing participants.

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