How To Use Oppress In A Sentence

And when they have done ye wrang, even when ye hae gotten decreet of spulzie, oppression, and violent profits against them, what better are ye? The Waverley
The magazine gave voice to hundreds of oppressed factory workers.
Whilst not sent with any malign intent, the letter was an " oppressive document".
They went into hiding in Katlijk, but where betrayed and fusilladed by the German oppressor.
'The first principles of commercial activity have retreated to earth's maziest penetralia, where no tides are! is it not so, Skepsey?' said Mr. Fenellan, whose initiative and exuberance in loquency had been restrained by a slight oppression, known to guests; especially to the guest in the earlier process of his magnification and illumination by virtue of a grand old wine; and also when the news he has to communicate may be a stir to unpleasant heaps. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith

Was a five-set slogging match in oppressive heat what the heart specialists would have recommended? Times, Sunday Times
This paradox arises either through the blocking of memory, or under oppressive regimes through torture and fear of the consequences of testifying.
He should fight against oppression and to establish justice and the broadest principles of religious toleration.
Does she really think we can change these oppressive systems? Times, Sunday Times
While I marvel at this book's heaviness and complexity, I too am a product of the disillusion climate, and I can't pipe down when I feel I'm being oppressed.
We might describe feminism as a political project to understand and, therefore, to change women's inequality, exploitation, or oppression.
And when thou hast done it, to let me understand what he saith, that I may dye the more contentedly, and disburdened of so heavy an oppression, the onely comfort to a parting spirit: and so she ceased, her teares flowing forth abundantly. The Decameron
I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it, and yet again had not the power, for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
But it is not so clear that this weakening of states increases the possibility of the political independence or autonomy of oppressed nations within them, because the bourgeoisies of the weakened nation-states in question fight back.
When encountering headachy thing to generate undesirable sentiment, not oppressed in the heart, and should think way its sparse release comes out.
OTOH I’ve always been fascinated by the massive blind spot in multiculti and PC discourse which refuses to acknowledge the oppressive and discriminatory elements in many non western cultures. Cheeseburger Gothic » Drop your bombs between the minarets, down Geneva way-ay-ay-aaayyy…
War, famine and oppression have forced people in the region to flee from their homes.
Wherever tyranny, oppression and brutality have threatened the free world, our two countries have stood for the triumph of good over evil.
At another time it might have been a pretty journey, the hills just turning the colors of pumpkin and hay and pomegranate and the skies depthless and clear, but now everywhere one looked most of the trees had been felled for fuel and there was only a hazy, oppressive brightness refracted from the shorn hillsides. Excerpt: The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
Accordingly the Divisional Court allowed the appeal, remitted the matter to the arbitrator and stayed the oppression remedy proceeding.
Religion is vulnerable to religious fanaticism and political extremism-history is full of religious oppression, violence, terrorism and wars. Dr T.P.Chia
And the first thing that hits you is the heat and the incredible, oppressive humidity.
I am oppressed by a nameless and mysterious suffering, .. my brain is darkened, -- my thoughts but half-formed and never wholly uttered, and I, -- I who once deemed human intelligence and reason all-supreme, all-clear, all-absolute, am now compelled to use that reason reasonlessly, and to work with that intelligence in helpless ignorance as to what end my mental toil shall serve! Ardath
For he really did believe capitalism controls the proles not by physical oppression but by bread and circuses, by cultural debasement - or ‘dumbing down’ as we now nervously say.
So we're going to fight for you against the people who are oppressing you.
As the autonomy of the local church kicks in (coupled with open-minded assessments of the spirit of Christ toward women), oppressive views of women in diaconal roles will increasingly get kicked out.
Conditions feel like a sauna, with extremely high humidity making the heat feel far more oppressive. Times, Sunday Times
Your life only lasts for a few decades, so be sure that you don't leave any regrets. Laugh or cry as you like, and it's meaningless to oppress yourself.
One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses or oppresses, its reemergence dramatized, as in our nightmares, as an object of horror, a matter for terror, and the happy ending (when it exists) typically signifying the restoration of repression. January 2010
The thirteen colonies began with a defensive revolution against tyrannical oppression and they were victorious.
Darren leaned closer to shout above the music, `They dinna look oppressed to me. AN OLDER WOMAN
I was so proud that Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea spent time and money to go Wyoming to condole with all these oppressed people and to reassure them that help is soon on the way. Obama Wins Wyoming, Networks Say
Oppression or unjustified imposition can never be tolerated.
Continued Rumsfeld: "These oppressed Iraqi oil wells deserve the right to pump oil as freely as any other oil well on God's Earth-be it in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, or an Alaskan wildlife refuge.
The same oppressive atmosphere pervades the town of Soham.
Karlin relates the oppressive anti-Semitism his forebears endured in a vague, almost elliptical style with dips into the stream of consciousness.
Everything that lived or grew, was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and the cicala, chirping his dry hot chirp, like a rattle. Little Dorrit
Is it an instrument of social oppression or of national self-assertion?
If things were the other way around, our son-whom-we-loved would be a damned terrorist, almost certainly, because he is of the third and fourth generation of refugeehood and oppression, and whence cometh salvation? Progressive Bloggers
In the Balkans these insurrections resulted in a gradual liberation of most of the oppressed peoples.
These people often are oppressed by the governments of the countries they find themselves in.
And people have critiqued Western reason precisely because ‘reason’ and ‘science’ have been such powerful tools to justify various oppressions.
This is the only humane approach to those fleeing violence, poverty and oppression.
But as he lay and devoured the new 'white breid,' his satisfaction -- the bare delight of his animal existence -- reached a pitch such as even this imagination, stinted with poverty, and frost-bitten with maternal oppression, had never conceived possible. Robert Falconer
It also provided an understanding of another form of ecofeminism, class oppression. Caring for the Earth « AAUW Dialog
As Audre Lourde argued, if we are to work for true social change and justice, there cannot be ‘a hierarchy of oppressions.’
Ownership of small property was the safeguard against both government tyranny and economic oppression.
These people have been oppressed by a corrupt police force for years. Times, Sunday Times
On the Korean Peninsula, an oppressive regime rules a people living in fear and starvation.
Your life only lasts for a few decades, so be sure that you don't leave any regrets. Laugh or cry as you like, and it's meaningless to oppress yourself.
My purpose is to show that poverty and misfortune make no invidious distinctions of “race, color, or previous condition,” but that wealth unduly centralized oppresses all alike; therefore, that the labor elements of the whole United States should sympathize with the same elements in the South, and in some favorable contingency effect some unity of organization and action, which shall subserve the common interest of the common class. Black and White
I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay any person's cause for lucre or malice.
In opposition to a modern, well equiped army of oppressors. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 16, 2010
While liberation from superstition and autocratic oppression is the great legacy of the Enlightenment, to perpetuate the repression of all spiritual expression in the name of reason is to continue to deny our innate being.
A degree of statutory definition has been enacted in the past, without any noticeable subsequent insuperable or oppressive difficulties.
The American courts for criminal procedure have stuck to a strong tradition of oppressing the fruits of the poisonous trees.
And I had come to be oppressed by what seemed to me the futility of art -- a pompous legerdemain, a consummate charlatanry that deceived not only its devotees but its practitioners. CHAPTER II
He had limited creole support, but his call galvanized hundreds of peasants and mineworkers who had suffered oppressive conditions in the Bajío region. H. New Spain (Mexico)
Scottish nationalists have made her into their version of Joan of Arc, a martyred hero who struggled against English oppression.
The gang tries to throw off the yoke of racist oppression and control their own destinies.
Religion is vulnerable to religious fanaticism and political extremism-history is full of religious oppression, violence, terrorism and wars. Dr T.P.Chia
He suffered from an oppressively dominant mother.
The only argument I've heard that remains is the argument for war as a way to liberate oppressed Iraqis.
These reforms were intended to free the common man to pursue business opportunities without the oppressive yoke of high interest rates or excessive rents.
Whatâ€™s called foris for us to integrate radical analysis of anti-Jewish oppression into the work we already do. The more things change, the more they stay the same | Jewschool
She works in the glove department of Saks Fifth Avenue, returning home to a modest apartment, a cat, a sketch pad and her oppressive loneliness.
He glanced back at Vincent, who was puffing and wheezing from the walk down the tunnel under the burden of ammunition, weapons and the oppressive heat of his coat.
And this could indeed have even worse consequences than leaving the oppressed to rot.
Has Rima, by that illicit act -- identifying herself with stripping, and hence prostitution and pornography, and by extension the oppression, degradation and exploitation of women, including sex trafficking, domestic violence, rape and other phallocentric crimes (Yes, I was throwing a Bindel there) -- Has Rima thrown away a lifetime of opportunity? Ruth Fowler: Rima, Carrie and Donald: Feminist Liberators
For Trotsky the f-word was a sign of slavery, the sigh of the oppressed, but for Steven Berkoff it is ‘a sign of passion’, a mark of working-class resistance to an effete and effeminate middle class.
Though it is rarely discussed, few argue that the poor and oppressed have the political capital necessary to compete for the federal funding and social programs that often go to wealthier cities and neighbourhoods.
Nowhere was it tried - and I mean real socialism, not welfare statism - where tyranny, misery, poverty, fear and oppression failed to follow.
It is tempting for trendy writers to portray him as a tool of rich imperialists oppressing the poor convicts.
GALLOWAY ON MID EAST POPULAR RESISTANCE MOVEMENT yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'GALLOWAY ON MID EAST POPULAR RESISTANCE MOVEMENT'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: George Galloway senses what I strongly feel ~ that the tide is turning against the Cheney/Bush neocon dream of global domination ~ for the rest of the world clearly sees the real threat to our civilization is the United States ~ and Galloway, who saw this threat clearly years ago, now comments on the rapidly growing demand of Muslim and Latin American movements for an alternative to America\'s oppression and domination.' GALLOWAY ON MID EAST POPULAR RESISTANCE MOVEMENT
The National Convention has promised armed support to any people who wish to rise against armed oppression.
Oppression maketh a wise man mad.
Fifty-one years ago, my father decided to leave his country of birth, to seek a life free from socio-political oppression.
Finally, corporate HQ had alienated its store managers through infantilizing incentives schemes, and irritated its employees with oppressive ‘loss prevention’ policies.
And first of all he reformed such things as his brother had left verie preiudiciall to the estate of the church, setting the same frée which before was sore oppressed. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
Unless supplemented and constrained by minority rights, state nation-building is likely to be oppressive and unjust.
The portrait of ‘patriarchal oppression’ presented by the investigative journalist is nonsense, incidentally, and he - who has the perspective and temperament of a Victorian bluestocking - was laughed off the island.
The Emperor's forces rediscovered human worlds, cast out alien oppressors, and claimed new territory aplenty.
The collecting itch urged Smith further and further afield, helped along by Houston's oppressive summer weather.
But in the main, an oppressed people learn how to outsmile or outsnarl the oppressor. Nonsenseorship
Tout ce que la centralisation laisse entrevoir de défauts, de ridicules et absurdités, d'oppression, de paperasseries en France, est grossi en Afrique au centuple. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2
For her, a productive response to oppression recognizes that ‘we must at some point understand our history and herstory and our ancestors.’
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
He was the pioneer of Satyagraha , mass resistance to government oppression through peaceful, non-violent civil disobedience and non-cooperation.
Arch. suorum suffraganeorum sibi subditorum universorum, prælatorum pariter et cleri procuratorum, convocationem isto anno apud Londonias semel et secundo, propter gravamina et oppressiones, de die in diem per summum pontificem et D. Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
At this time king Richard sent the abbat of Caen (who was also the elect of Durham) into England, to take an accompts of those that had the receipts of the kings monie: for this abbat had informed the king, that his receiuers and officers here in the realme dealt not iustlie in making their accompts, [Sidenote: Fraudulent dealing in officers.] but both deceiued the king, and oppressed his people, in exacting more than was due, and concealing that which they ought to stand accomptable for. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
Predictably, club owners and ravers responded with a pressure campaign of their own, accusing city hall of being oppressive and anti-youth.
Socialism cannot exist without a change in consciousness resulting in a new fraternal attitude toward humanity, both at an individual level, within the societies where socialism is being built or has been built, and on a world scale, with regard to all peoples suffering from imperialist oppression. Che Guevara
Hassan and his twelve companions had reached the summit: the giant was precipitated from the rampart: he rose on one knee, and was again oppressed by a shower of darts and stones. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It's also true that they have been oppressing their own people and conducting a campaign of abuse against women that justifies international intervention.
Wig also found that, on top of the normal pressure of call center work, the atmosphere was very oppressive.
Starvation, slavery, oppression and fear continue to dominate much of our world.
And as Judge Elizabeth Gloster mulls it all over, London-based Boris offers advice to those still stuck in his homeland, oppressed by his enemy Putin. Hugh Muir's diary
The law should not pursue those allegedly guilty of minor, inadvertent or technical crimes decades ago, because to do so is disproportionate and oppressive.
[133], Assyrian writers explain that: The deep and hidden reason of the tyrannical oppression practiced throughout the Middle East is the imposition of pan-Arabic nationalist cliques that intend to dictatorially arabize the various peoples of the Middle East, who are � - all -- not Arabs Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
At the very least, they could organize to fight the oppressive way in which science gets done.
After an exhausting drill in oppressive heat, Mia Hamm jogged off the field. USATODAY.com - Rejuvenated Hamm still a reluctant star
In his proclamation of the birth of the messianic child and its reign of peace without end, the prophet gave new hope to a deeply oppressed and depressed people.
The asphalt was dark and slightly shiny in the sun, as if the oppressive heat was melting the tar within the road.
In this latter view, absolute truth and creedal faith are seen as fundamentalisms that not only oppress but foster violence.
Artists all free and lively things, are great oppression and get, is the great effort.
This analysis not only reveals how multiple oppressions constitute the contemporary system, but also suggests new openings for change.
Often, we use the term globalisation without dissecting its meaning and in many ways we have seen those who have political and economic power in the world using the term to justify actions that benefit this small section of humanity, thus engendering strong opposition from the oppressed and the marginalised. Globalisation must benefit all humanity
Right or wrong, like our methods/personalities or not, the radical citizen who organizes is the only group standing between you and your government when some must stand between oppressive powers and the public. Research and Teaching
These so-called progressive women are more than happy to essentialize gender roles if it means oppressing someone that is not like them but you can rest assured that if it meant that they were forced to perform genderized work i.e. stay home and play good little wife while the husband works, you would hear an uproar. Congratulations to Thomas Beattie In Spite of “The Views” Transphobia
You want to come stay in Tel Aviv one of these days, now that's oppressive weather.
We do not read in history of any act of cruelty practiced towards a male bewitcher; though we have authentic records to prove, that many a weak and defenceless woman has been tortured, and even murdered by a people professing Christianity, merely because a pampered priest, or a superstitious idiot, sanctioned such oppression. Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
Some people love hot weather, but I find it oppressive and stifling and generally unpleasant.
Continued Rumsfeld: "These oppressed Iraqi oil wells deserve the right to pump oil as freely as any other oil well on God's Earth-be it in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, or an Alaskan wildlife refuge.
We've had wars, liberations, and oppressions.
There's another story here of an oppressed people yearning to breathe free. Times, Sunday Times
No, this won't be a naval skirmish with some oppressive foreign dictator.
The courtyard was completely silent, as it had been earlier, but now the silence seemed oppressive, suffocating.
When Arima, one of the main characters, goes crazy later in the same story, it seems to be tied to an increased fetor: ‘The stench of pus and smell of sweat filled the hut oppressively’.
Nkosi explained that Sisulu was the invisible power behind Mandela's successful defiance of the oppressive apartheid regime.
The stories of the seven characters intertwine impossibly in a story of identity and self-imposed oppression.
A quarter-century of anger is being released by an oppressed people.
Does she really think we can change these oppressive systems? Times, Sunday Times
Mary, oppressed by the idea of ungenerous concealment, resolved at length to unveil her heart to a mother so tender of her happiness. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
In contrast, the Catholic doctrine of suffering, like the Beatitudes, inverted the oppressive world of nature: the lowly were raised up and the mighty cast down.
Whether one argues that the country is responding to an oppressive regime with expulsive force or aggressively targeting the nation, they won't be doing anything they haven't done before.
Could it be that we oppress and kill each other so readily because our abuse and slaughter of animals has desensitized us to the suffering and death of others?
In this regard, I can no longer, for example, sit with a poor family hovering along the poverty line without being mindful of the multitudinous ways in which class oppression can fracture the relationships of those affected.
Build up world support using Ahmadinejad's oppressive and brutal response to the civilian protestors and dissidents, many of whom are remnants of a tyrant who preceded Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs there, the dreaded murderer, the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Ray Hanania: Don't Give Ahmadinejad the Excuses He Wants
The cultural text remains alive and continues to speak in a discourse of oppression.
Robert Mugabe for what it called oppression of his own people and called for an immediate end to the demolitions of shantytowns. ANC Daily News Briefing
SRINAGAR, India - Indian authorities have filed charges against Kashmir education officials over a textbook for first graders that illustrates the word "oppressor" with a sketch resembling an Indian police officer. StarTribune.com rss feed
The British Constitution, starting with Magna Carta of 1215 and expanded by subsequent Constitutional Acts guarantees us freedom from foreign or executive oppression or dictation.
Wentworth had a threateningly dark and oppressive atmosphere whereas I can honestly say I've been in scarier factory canteens than the one at Larkhall.
His smoky shots of blasted earth and gnashing machinery, spraying explosions and blackened pits create an oppressively alien landscape hostile to man and woman alike.
Lord Lane said: Oppression does not stand on the doorstep with a toothbrush moustache and a swastika armband.
The Bible which has been used as a tool to oppress, subjugate and colonize indigenous people has proved to be even more powerful a weapon than the European's firearms.
I feel more than a little awkward using hoodoo stuff, to be honest, given the vast gulf between my own advantages and the bitterly oppressed state of its originators.
This objection, however, or some other, rather political than moral, obtained such prevalence, that when Gay produced a second part, under the name of Polly, it was prohibited by the lord chamberlain; and he was forced to recompense his repulse by a subscription, which is said to have been so liberally bestowed, that what he called oppression ended in profit. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
Fog, wet and oppressive, like gauze on a camera lens, softens edges off in the distance.
They are the soul of the surviving population and the oppressed country's one link with freedom. Times, Sunday Times
The oppressive afternoon heat had quite tired him out.
The underlying point is clear enough for anyone with eyes to see: America is a “sick society” whose oppressive capitalist system must be transformed out of all recog- nition.130 Radical-In-Chief
I'll cut tj_han some slack because he is a poor oppressed conscript drafted unwillingly into Singapore's army at a young age as photographer or what I call a cushy public affairs job, not that I blame him for being cunning and crafty the lucky git. Anime Nano!
it was oppressively hot in the office
Hopes of the oppressed of a continent were pinned on it.
The basic elements of this perspective are a strong liberal commitment to human rights, solidarity with the oppressed, and a firm stand against fascism, totalitarianism and tyranny.
In Cuba we detested marching, uniforms and weapons, because for us we were always the symbols of oppression and abuse, symbols of privilege, symbols of outrate. CASTRO ADDRESS ON 1 MAY 1960
They solicited civic protection for their own conscientious practice of religion, pleading freedom from all oppression and molestation.
She grew up as a member of this oppressed proletariat that Marx and Engels wrote about.
The bald fact is that the previous Government panicked, listened to the wrong people and set up a cumbersome and oppressive system with little regard for justice. Times, Sunday Times
Every tyrant and every oppressor deserve the full wrath of justice.
I would rather do that than attempt to define what vexation and oppression mean; they must vary with the circumstances of each case.
* Caught in this estrogen centrifuge is "Zack" - Dane Cook - pawn of corporate overlords and oppressed caricature of Everyman who toils beneath the yoke of an insufficient hourly wage. Nothing to report today.
He can only hope such action is measured, effective and does not add to the misery of some of the world's poorest and most oppressed people.
They found government harsh and oppressive, complaining of the disparities between the rich and poor.
The bald fact is that the previous Government panicked, listened to the wrong people and set up a cumbersome and oppressive system with little regard for justice. Times, Sunday Times
Even in the years of oppression, Ghvtismshobeli had remained a symbol of nationalist pride, which the Soviets had not dared tamper with. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
We had a brief reprieve earlier this week from the oppressive heat of the Washington summer, but the last couple days have been dangerously hot.
Building on the practices and stories that survived - or emerged from -- hundreds of years of cultural intermixture, oppression, and natural evolution, social movement leaders constructed a powerful narrative of origin from which to build cultural pride and political power. Nathaniel Loewentheil: Bolivia: One Llama's Great Incan Adventure
Whilst we, their former colonial oppressors, are still farting around with bits of paper, pencils and tin boxes - they've just got on with it and held their first totally electronic national election.
In tertian fever, the morbific cause seeking the heart in the first instance, and hanging about the heart and lungs, renders the patient short-winded, disposed to sighing, and indisposed to exertion, because the vital principle is oppressed and the blood forced into the lungs and rendered thick. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
For people living in an oppressed or corrupt society, the truth can whet demand for change.
This would weaken the fight against oppression and allow a continuation of oppressive practices.
Days of oppressive weariness and languor, whose realities have the feeble sickliness of dreams; nights, whose dreams are fierce realities of agony; sinking health, tottering frames, incipient madness, and worse, the consciousness of incipient madness; this is the price of their whistle. Mary Barton
This is a time full of lessons for those who day to day languish under the oppressive yoke of capitalism.
The sun rose, becoming oppressive as we traveled through the chain of islands.
Ms. Gornick reflects on the "raging intemperateness" of the era's feminist rhetoric—"marriage is an institution of oppression"; "love is rape"; "sleeping with the enemy"—and realizes now that reform wasn't the goal. Lyrical Leftist, Dogged Idealist
Among other things, Payton insists that the word jazz is racist and that deeply embedded societal oppression of black Americans necessitates a reclassification of the music. KansasCity.com: Front Page
It was stuffy and confined, muggy and stagnant, thick and oppressive.
Since then, they have ceaselessly prated about alternatives including foreign funded NGOism, job placements in the reactionary government, electoral politics and the like to the armed revolution rather than to the oppressive and exploitative ruling system. Introduction to Philippine Economy and Politics - Jose Maria Sison CPP
Their marriage was celebrated with barbaric pomp and festivity, at his wooden palace beyond the Danube; and the monarch, oppressed with wine and sleep, retired at a late hour from the banquet to the nuptial bed.
This violence is directed towards other national states, and the state's own population who revolt against the oppression they suffer.
Mohandas K. Gandhi's movement of satyagraha, or non-violent passive resistance in the face of British oppression, formed the key to India's response to British colonization and gave shape to the drive for independence.
People take their future into their own hands and rebel against an oppressive authority.
The oppressed must be made aware of their subjugation.
The oppressor suppressed hellos aggressive opinion about compressor.
He insisted that Rahman merely said it was time to "reevaluate" the cease fire because of the Egyptian government's oppression and recalcitrance. Lynne Stewart's Long Struggle for Justice
On the way, London's ancient, massive buildings, black statues and dirt surround me, oppress and burden me.
The only freedom modern “libertarians” seem to promote is the freedom of deregulation, the freedom to support the second and only the second amendment, the freedom of minority oppression and the freedom to tell you what your freedoms are. Think Progress » Army Secretary says Gates has placed a de facto moratorium on DADT discharges.
This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression. PodCastle » 2010 » February
No, it's not the frustrating obstacle course of shoe removal, sweeps and patdowns, oppressive crowds, interminable queues, perspiratory delays and airplane food (or lack of it) that makes every trip a challenge. Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: Fear of Flying: Ruminating on Air Travel
And how can we loosen its oppressive hold on our lives? Christianity Today
This is a really oppressive system. The Sun
Following the announcement, Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, told senior editor Simon Frantz why Herta Müller's uniqueness comes from the double experience of being part of a minority language while being under an oppressed society. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 - Prize Announcement
Identification with the community is even consistent with hostility to its laws, if those are thought to be oppressive or unfair.
Generations of poetry lovers were brought up without any knowledge that Shelley's radical opposition to all tyranny and oppression was central to his art and his life.
My hypothesis is this: to predict what the human rights community (and the media) focus on, look not at the oppressed; look instead at the party seen as the oppressor.
The new hard-line government brought 'normalization': a return to dogmatism, to censorship and oppression, yet now with minimal terror. The Times Literary Supplement
The playwrights' experimental use of English (including the absence of capital letters, apostrophes, punctuation, etc.) is one way in which they resist oppression.
Only through genuine communion can the suffering and oppression of some become real to all.
To associate its spiritual or "sacerdotal" function with its national one "is to be considered as ... a mis-growth of ignorance and oppression. Introduction: Irony and Clerisy
Any upsurge of nationalist feeling automatically translates into an oppression of what is perceived as other.
Moreover he was oppressed by a familiar and stomachless sensation -- the sensation he always had when he tried to high-dive and stood looking gingerly down from a shaky platform at water that seemed a thousand miles away and as flat and hard as a blue steel plate. Young People's Pride
With this grand insight into the inner workings of oppression, our educational theorists inveigh against “standard English” and counsel respect for “alternative dialects.” February 9th, 2009
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
Fairness to the person who has incriminated himself and any others affected by the incriminating statement and any danger of oppression would also be relevant considerations.
The government oppresses political activists
He would be the spark which would ignite their oppressed fury.
They are the source of wealth and the hope of a world weary of poverty and weary of oppression.
The story goes that a houngan voodoo priest named Dutty Boukman held a meeting of black slaves and runaways at Bois Caïman in the mountains of the north to prepare to rise up against their oppressors. What's this "deal with the devil" that Pat Robertson was talking about?

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