How To Use Oppressed In A Sentence

The magazine gave voice to hundreds of oppressed factory workers.
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.
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.
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

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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
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.
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
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.
These people have been oppressed by a corrupt police force for years. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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
The only argument I've heard that remains is the argument for war as a way to liberate oppressed Iraqis.
And this could indeed have even worse consequences than leaving the oppressed to rot.
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.
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.
But in the main, an oppressed people learn how to outsmile or outsnarl the oppressor. Nonsenseorship
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
There's another story here of an oppressed people yearning to breathe free. Times, Sunday Times
A quarter-century of anger is being released by an oppressed people.
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
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.
They are the soul of the surviving population and the oppressed country's one link with freedom. Times, Sunday Times
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!
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.
She grew up as a member of this oppressed proletariat that Marx and Engels wrote about.
* 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.
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.
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.
The oppressed must be made aware of their subjugation.
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
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.
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
He would be the spark which would ignite their oppressed fury.
The gloomy atmosphere in the office oppressed her.
Sometimes they are heroes - doctors and engineers cleaning up slums, lawyers fighting for the rights of oppressed minorities; and sometimes they are villains - stooges and lackeys of the ruling class.
This is a battle over the right to call this conflict a conflict between two peoples: one that is oppressed, and the other that is denying them their right to be free.
It's only when they go on holiday that you realise how oppressed their constant presence makes you feel.
Whether receiving the plaudits of a country court for a successful defence, or the homage and praise of millions in this and other lands, for the liberation of a long-oppressed race and the preservation of the nation's life, he was the same modest, self-forgetting, unelated man. A Great Man Fallen!
Biko spoke of liberation as both an act of claiming land and legal rights but also an act of psychological emancipation from the chains of the mind where by people internalized the prejudices of the oppressor and then oppresses others the way they have been oppressed. Open Letter from Sex Worker Advocate to South Africa’s Honorable Premier Nomvula Mokonyane « Bound, Not Gagged
They were no longer the oppressed, wretched teen menials who must take orders, toe the line.
He speaks as the political representative of an imperialist nation which has brutally oppressed the people of the region for over a century.
Second, women are oppressed by both capitalism and by patriarchy. Critical Social Research
I believe that there is no reason for a frank, sincere government to be blindsided or oppressed, if it's willing to communicate in a rational, humble and practical way.
Provided that our virtue be high and our name untarnished, then our office may be low and our income meagre, it is not the fault of our talents, and we should not feel oppressed by it. Lunheng
His Southern hereditament of chivalry, his compassion for the oppressed and his defence of the down-trodden, were never in abeyance from the beginning of his career to the very end. Mark Twain
Farjami, oppressed by the smell of camphor, which is used in the preparation of the body for burial, reminisces about the smell of jasmine, which brings to mind spring and fresh beginnings.
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayerbooks, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brain of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of "Thus saith the Lord. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
It disenfranchises and oppressed most of those that are supposedly part of the rescue. Thoughts on rescues, rescuers and realities « Bound, Not Gagged
All: Lord, help us to defend the oppressed.
She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy. Lord Jim
These people have been oppressed by a corrupt police force for years. Times, Sunday Times
I want to thank your web site for its untiring efforts in raising the consciousness of the oppressed.
They already witnessed and live the suffering of an oppressed people under the harsh realities of a capitalist system.
I've gotten over being oppressed by it though and will carry on.
He identified with the oppressed and exploited everywhere and championed their struggles for emancipation.
It takes a special sort of myopia to focus your eye and see the people who carry out such acts as ‘the oppressed’.
I was too naive to understand that oppressed people have a problem with fixation too. Christianity Today
The usual supplications were offered, with more than the usual significancy in such a place, for the fatherless children and widows, for all sick persons and young children, for all that were desolate and oppressed, for the comforting and helping of the weak-hearted, for the raising-up of them that had fallen; for all that were in danger, necessity, and tribulation. Reprinted Pieces
Though of course many people there are good, civilized sorts, there is also below the surface for many people an attitude of ‘every man for himself’ which doubtless comes from a society which has been poor and oppressed for a long, long time. Ukraine Travelogue, part 1: Travel is hell! « Skulls in the Stars
The capitalist patriarchy view argues that women are exploited as labourers in class terms but are also oppressed by patriarchy. Critical Social Research
These people have been oppressed by a corrupt police force for years. Times, Sunday Times
In passing out of the belt of scrub into the openly timbered grassy flat of the river, Brown descried a kangaroo sitting in the shade of a large Bastard-box tree; it seemed to be so oppressed by the heat of the noonday sun as to take little notice of us, so that Brown was enabled to approach sufficiently near to shoot it. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
She couldn't find anything out of order, but sometimes she felt oppressed, suffocated.
It is the American dream, but also the socialist Utopia, the glimmer of hope for the poor, the comforter of the oppressed who yearn for salvation.
Transformed by the Eucharist we have received, we are sent to minister Jesus' presence to the lonely, downtrodden, and oppressed.
I have a feeling that Phillip wants to be oppressed by the government - it would be less painful to him as his current state: uninfluential and wholly irrelevant.
Nature had rather need of annular tubes, such as those of the bronchi in order that they might always remain open, and not be liable to collapse; and that they might continue entirely free from blood, lest the liquid should interfere with the passage of the air, as it so obviously does when the lungs labour from being either greatly oppressed or loaded in a less degree with phlegm, as they are when the breathing is performed with a sibilous or rattling noise. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
But was this political climate of friendliness towards the oppressed one that lesbians and gays could afford to ignore?
Now his breathing was what doctors call stertorous, heavy and oppressed. Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea
He declares support for the oppressed but hasn't grasped that the people he supports are oppressing people in their own countries and are now attacking the very democracy that he lives in.
- When someone says "Picking and choosing from oppressed cultures for your pretties is appropriative," and we get that zero-g stomach-doing-flips sense of I have done something fundamentally wrong. As we're looking through our prison bars do I see mud when you see stars?
He smiled, as a man awakened from a bad dream and still oppressed by the substance of the dream. The Sheriff of Kona
It is, no doubt, troublesome to make the oil so frequently, for the grating is tedious, and it must be slowly boiled; still, Kobez was not so oppressed by many duties that he could not find time to make it himself. Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
Liberty, fraternity and equality must be reclaimed for the millions of the deprived and oppressed of the Indian earth.
They also criticize the tendency of the dominant framework to interpret harms suffered by oppressed groups as harms solely to generic individuals who have been stripped of their particularity.
The ideal of freedom, its protection at home as well as its evangelization overseas, is repeatedly invoked to justify military interventionism, almost as if without a world vigilante constantly fanning the flames of liberty, asphyxiation would strangulate the planet's supposedly oppressed. Sunil Sharan: The West's Victim Complex
Nor will it ever be forgotten how he humbled the pride of them that withstood him, and gathered to himself the confidence of the people, and submitted himself to the promptings of his conscience, and enraged Egypt's haughty aristocrats with his proposals and demands in behalf of the oppressed, and in the face of Egypt's armies led out the enslaved from the house of bondage, and saw the hosts of Israel's oppressors overwhelmed under The Assassinated President
Oppressed groups - at least those we've talked about here - were oppressed before a heroin epidemic took off.
In a time when we have never been more oppressed by the system, doesn't she still have some resonance?
Religion has oppressed women, and degraded women for ages and ages, since the beginning of times.
His writing reflects the most difficult times for Latin America oppressed by authoritarianism, where human rights were not respected, where he shows human suffering with great sensitivity, oppression that forced Mario to remain exiled from the country for a long period of time. Global Voices in English » Uruguay: The Passing of Writer Mario Benedetti
Every case of slavery, however lenient its inflictions and mitigated its atrocities, indicates an oppressor, the oppressed, and oppression.
Indeed, quite early on there is a disturbing section on how people often feel oppressed by this fast-moving environment. Times, Sunday Times
Epidemical fevers and fluxes, which fill the ship with noisome and noxious effluvia, often break out, and infect the seamen likewise, and thus the oppressors, and the oppressed, fall by the same stroke.
Workers and handicraftsmen, while quitting the secret societies of the bourgeois democrats and the republicans, brought with them as a legacy the conviction that the oppressed and exploited of all nations had a common task.
There are conflicts where one side is a fully armed and violent oppressor while the other side is defenseless and oppressed.
He has oppressed our people and caused great hardship for too long.
They have a simple shrewdness, which, under a better system, had made them enterprising; but this quality has degenerated into cunning and cheatery, -- the weapons which the hopelessly oppressed always use. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
I also believed that children weren't lazy, idle, unmotivated, all the usual list of adjectives the oppressor puts on the oppressed.
Rousseau taught that human beings are naturally asocial, and in that case to live in society is to be terribly oppressed (unless, he thought, you totally surrender your self).
He was oppressed, hagridden by doubt, and with a tendency to produce a gross error on big points. Times, Sunday Times
What raises these lives above their oppressed condition is human decency, frequently laced with deadpan irony. The Times Literary Supplement
The biggest single problem for the regime is the oppressed, contentious Shi'ite minority, who are fortuitously located just where the largest oil deposits sit.
Recognizing this common structure as a structure of need-deprivation and capacity disablement thus brings to light a genuine commonality in the lives of the oppressed.
oppressed by a sense of failure
We are the Marthas -- trudging our daily rounds, oppressed with sense of the duties that must be done, with the righteous feeling of the hardness of our lot; and these light-hearts, these trouble-shirkers, this corkiness of youth, exasperate us enormously. Once Aboard the Lugger
The middle-class activists in attendance were told to be like Moses: people of modest means intent on liberating the oppressed who have nothing.
As unexpressed, he feels it in what we called a helpless and oppressed way; as expressed, he feels in a way from which this sense of oppression has vanished. Collingwood's Aesthetics
Oppressed by his gloominess, Foma had come down on the deck from his cabin, and, for some time, had been standing in the shadow of some wares covered with tarpaulin, and listened to the admonitive and gentle voice of the preacher. The Man Who Was Afraid
And not merely in naturalness of manners, but also in moral elevation, in guileless sincerity, in delicate regard for the feelings even of enemies, in true devotion to the good of their fellow-men, especially to the cause of the poor and oppressed, and in earnest religious faith, were these men twin-brothers. Discourse Delivered on the Day of the Funeral of President Lincoln.
As Stella, the 1950's bored wife, inattentive mother and unhinged adulteress at the center of this story, Ms. Richardson initially affects the vacant mien of cinema's classically oppressed women.
The prospect of an unappetizing tea, and the dark, dingy hours waiting like cold greens she must eat before bedtime, oppressed her. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
You've already done your part for the oppressed and downtrodden demons of the world.
It could hardly be said that the relations were entirely harmonious between the military-minded rector, who held to the righteousness of helotry and the value of ignorance in the class beneath him, and the young curate burning with zeal and oppressed with the desire to put all the crooked things of life straight. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
People from poor, oppressed, traditionally nonliterate Asian communities perform similarly to people from poor, oppressed, traditionally nonliterate African communities. Matthew Yglesias » LA Teacher’s Union To Get Its Shot
We used to lecture the Russians for oppressing the Jews, before we heard the word Bolshevist and began to lecture them for being oppressed by the Jews. What I Saw in America
Poictou subdued the strong fortresse of Tailbourg, which was iudged before that time, inexpugnable: but earle Richard oppressed them that kept it so sore with streight siege, that first in a desperate mood they issued foorth, and assailed his people verie valiantlie, but yet neuerthelesse they were beaten backe, and forced to retire into their fortresse, which finallie they surrendred into the hands of earle Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
He had begun to elaborate an idealistic policy of service to the world, not unreminiscent of the altruistic schemes of Clay and Webster for assisting oppressed republicans in Europe during the first third of the nineteenth century. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.
Cortesi in reply to him, artfully insinuated, that one great ob - jeat of the Spaniards in visiting a country so remote f jrom their 0¥m, was to redress grievances, and to re - lieve tiie oppressed; and having encouraged him to hope lor this interposition in due time, be continued his march to Quiabislam. The history of America
It knows too well that hierocracies have not been shining examples of justice among the aristocracies, monarchies, democracies, plutocracies, race tyrannies and class rules which have oppressed mankind.
We Marxists consider the tactic of individual terror inexpedient in the tasks of the liberating struggle of the proletariat as well as oppressed nationalities.
Make moan of all that I endure for dole and drearihead And of my sleepless eyes, oppressed of wakefulness alway? The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
Indeed, if the analogy were pursued to its logical conclusion, we might well envision the phenomenon of self-directed humor of the oppressed as contributing to the perpetuation of the oppression.
The ANC's view of ‘national liberation’ had historically prioritized inter-class cooperation among the oppressed, rather than socialist transformation.
If thou have been oppressed, we will end thine oppression, and if thou be in debt, we will pay thy debt; for of a truth my heart burneth to see thee, since I first set eyes on thee. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Mike Males devotes a chapter in his 1999 book Framing Youth to debunking the myth that young people are not oppressed.
When this failed, we found ourselves part of an invisible and oppressed minority: Middle Class Infertile Couples who put careers and galavanting before their fertility clock. Pamela Alma Bass: Panicked Parents' Preschool Application
He had dedicated his life to bettering the lot of the oppressed people of South Africa.
Rather, like oppressed people everywhere, he draws integrity from inner resources.
Second, women are oppressed by both capitalism and by patriarchy. Critical Social Research
In the fight for change, the most oppressed and downtrodden come to the forefront.
Right now the church is like the priest and the Levite in this story, walking by the oppressed LGBT youth. Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards: Gay Teen Suicides: People of Faith, Step Up for Our Youth!
Sometimes they are heroes - doctors and engineers cleaning up slums, lawyers fighting for the rights of oppressed minorities; and sometimes they are villains - stooges and lackeys of the ruling class.
Animal spirits could be low, broken, oppressed, dejected, petulant, harassed or even ruffled beyond description.
The oppressed throughout the world from that day to the present have turned their eyes hitherward.
In the Brechtian aesthetic, the real struggles of life and oppressed peoples can not be shown, as it were, naturally.
Concentrating on catalogues of objects such as houses, clothing, household furnishings, and food helped the authors make visible the invisible economic system that oppressed the croppers.
Let the North be conquered, and the salt tears of the oppressed will water the ground for many a long decade of years, and many a hecatomb will uprear its head, and many a sod be nurtured by the blood of liberty-loving human beings.
If history has taught us anything, it is that oppressed people naturally crave liberty above all else. Times, Sunday Times
I can sympathize with the struggle of the poor and the oppressed against the rule of the wealthy and the so-called privileged.
It is the most oppressed, the weakest of these individuals who would be threatened by any attempts to fragmentize the effective scope of the Declaration. René Cassin - Nobel Lecture
The biblical hero who avenged himself in a suicide mission is the wrong role model for the oppressed.
'Tis most true, tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes, and [72] there is no end of writing of books, as the wiseman found of old, in this [73] scribbling age, especially wherein [74] the number of books is without number, (as a worthy man saith,) presses be oppressed, and out of an itching humour that every man hath to show himself, [75] desirous of fame and honour Anatomy of Melancholy
The club, they felt, was oppressed by its gluttonously successful history and the red shirt with white sleeves was too strongly identified with the stellar teams from the decades before and after the Second World War. No point getting shirty over England's new-look kit
And the ability to see how women and girls from another culture were oppressed (as they very much were in Brasil) enabled me to understand, thanks to Hanne's insistence I drop my ethnocentrism, that we were just as oppressed in the U.S., although it was expressed in different ways. BRASIL AS A GIRL
New Labour is no longer the party of the oppressed but based on the same capitalist philosophy as the Conservatives.
Everywhere in the world we see that the oppressed people take their anger out more readily on each other than on their perceived oppressor.
That guns can and have been used by the oppressed to ward off their oppressors suggests that they can be a tool
While those in their 40s and 50s may feel oppressed by their jobs, resenting the daily commute to work and yearning for retirement, we are already free and full of spirit.
The magazine gave voice to hundreds of oppressed factory workers.
He has killed hundreds of thousands of people and tortured and oppressed countless others.
The film is set in 13th-century Scotland, when Wallace returns to his homeland to find it oppressed and taken over by the brutal, pagan king of England, Edward I.
Liberating the oppressed and deposing tyrants are moral choices; appeasing dictators and fomenting hatred of those who would overcome them are immoral choices
These people have been oppressed by a corrupt police force for years. Times, Sunday Times
However, her cleverness and talent for witty banter makes it so she never comes across as being oppressed.
What raises these lives above their oppressed condition is human decency, frequently laced with deadpan irony. The Times Literary Supplement
a spirit which Satan had bound, the schoolmaster caught sight, -- caught from its commonness, its grimness, its defeature, inspiration and uplifting, for there he beheld the oppressed, down trodden, mire fouled humanity which the man in whom he believed had loved because it was his father's humanity divided into brothers, and had died straining to lift back to the bosom of that Father. The Marquis of Lossie
From this time an inviolable peace filled the lowly heart of the oppressed one; life's uttermost woes fell from him unharming. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
A profoundly humanitarian and egalitarian person, identification with the oppressed was at the core of her being.
Is a woman oppressed if she chooses to adhere to a patriarchal ideology? Times, Sunday Times
My parents were both peronistas followers of Juan Domingo Perón, who, alongside Evita, had become the hero for the oppressed working classes, actively involved in youth movements with strong anti-military and anti-bourgeois ideals. Family life
In fact, reformism of one sort or another is the natural first reaction of any exploited or oppressed group when it begins to stir into action against its suffering.
In its place will come the class of productive workers, the working class, that has been up until today oppressed.
Statement C starts from the same premise, but is an even more explicit version of a teleology of the oppressed.
For those who still have minds to see, to see class struggle in action, in the capital, Fort-de-France, a fierce political battle was raging between the 'békés', the wealthy white ruling descendants of French colonists, and the black oppressed offspring of the African victims of the transatlantic slave trade. The global debacle is a profound structural energetic crisis
As it happens, Cato is a fierce tiger when it comes to advocating for oppressed tobacco firms.
There should be a natural affinity between them and other oppressed people of India.
Epidemical fevers and fluxes, which fill the ship with noisome and noxious effluvia, often break out, and infect the seamen likewise, and thus the oppressors, and the oppressed, fall by the same stroke.
Under the centuries - long feudal serfdom, the Tibetan serfs were politically oppressed, economically exploited and frequently persecuted.
The oppressed and brutalized have become the brutal oppressors.
You may feel oppressed by people in control and a lack of freedom and space to be creative.
Oppressed, as they thought, by the patricians, the plebeians in a body walked out of Rome and set themselves up on a neighbouring hill.
Others regarded it as a mucous discharge, or a depurative; and others, as a salutary crisis, removing from the constitution that which oppressed the different organs. The Dog
His aim, ostensibly, was to bring liberty and equality to the oppressed peoples of that continent.
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.
God's waves with which he afflicted him, which rolled upon him, one on the neck of another, so that he scarcely recovered from one dark thought before he was oppressed with another; these waves beat against him with noise and fury; not some, but all, of God's waves were made use of in afflicting him and bearing him down. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
I feel oppressed and confused by neat columns of figures marching down the page or screen, disoriented by colour-coded graphs and the arcane jargon of statistical analysis.
Sentimental photographs of high quality continue the maudlin iconography of Indians as last representatives of a fine and more noble pristine past, oppressed by crude invaders.
These events culminated a gradual process of readjustment of the different positions and a steady return to the vilified classics of Latin American critical thought, particularly the fecund production of the 1960s and 1970s, including dependency theory, liberation theology and philosophy of liberation, the pedagogy of the oppressed, the theories of internal colonialism, third cinema, collective theater, and transculturation. Posthegemony
The soil would be oppressed with her own fertility; the herds would overmultitude their lords; and the crouded air would be darkened with the plumes of its numerous inhabitants. Imogen A Pastoral Romance
It is specific for asthma and oppressed breathing, hiccup, whooping cough, spasmodic croup, tetanus, hydrophobia, hysteria paroxysms and hysterical convulsions.
[J] ust a classy word for oppressed, for Other, for somebody who's not getting a piece of the pie … Many people want to claim subalternity. OpenDemocracy
This term indicative of collaboration of castes and classes should be fundamentally inimical to the caste or class struggle of the oppressed and exploited. Kafila
Domestic servitude has only been escaped by passing it down to another cadre of oppressed women.
He cultivates this image of himself as the defender of the oppressed.
The lack of democracy and equality impelled the oppressed to fight for independence.
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
The leaves are petiolate, the footstalk small short and oppressed; acerose reather more than half a line in width and very unequal in length, the greatest length being little more than half an inch, while others intermixed on every part of the bough are not more than a 1/4 in length. flat with a small longitudinal channel in the upper disk which is of a deep green and glossey, while the uder disk is of a whiteish green only; two ranked, obtusely pointed, soft and flexable. this tree affords but little rosin. the cone is remarkably small not larger than the end of a man's thumb soft, flexable and of an ovate form, produced at the ends of the small twigs. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Henceforth we command that no man be disseized of any seisin that he holds, without cognisance of cause, or special order from ourselves; and that our people be not oppressed with new exactions of tallages and fresh customs; nor shall a muster be ordered in order to get the people's money, nor shall they be called out for military service without sufficient cause. The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville
'cumbrance," and in his own happy life there is always sympathy for the poor and oppressed. Dick Lionheart
First, oppressed groups often exhibit self-hatred and dislike for members of their own group.
This highly original, thought-provoking and discursive counterblast against the hypocrisy and cant be served up to the [US ]public should be watched by anyone with any sympathy with that country's exploited and oppressed.
Initially the term meant the oppressed nations living under the yoke of the Islamic empire. The Coming Revolution
The film is set in 13th-century Scotland, when Wallace returns to his homeland to find it oppressed and taken over by the brutal, pagan king of England, Edward I.
Indeed, quite early on there is a disturbing section on how people often feel oppressed by this fast-moving environment. Times, Sunday Times
Miriam Burnstein gives us the 'rules' for a neo-Victorian novel, a world in which the evil methodistical Evangelicals do battle with Truly Egalitarian Heroes and Heroines who are Instinctively Admired by Oppressed Populations. Additional Links
Oppressed, as they thought, by the patricians, the plebeians in a body walked out of Rome and set themselves up on a neighbouring hill.
These people have been oppressed by a corrupt police force for years. Times, Sunday Times

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