Sentence examples for act of oppression from inspiring English sources

Ahmadinejad expressed dissatisfaction with the decision against Mashaei, describing it as an act of oppression.

[Is this fair?] I was going to wear a chastity belt today as a symbol of sexual slavery but I don't want to use a gimmicky prop to represent a serious act of oppression against the female population of this island.

Publicity is vital in this process, since "the greater the number of the members of the whole community to whom the existence of an act of oppression has been made known, the greater is the number of those by whom … not only may obedience be withholden, but resistance opposed" (1990, 30).

It is important to remember that not every act of oppression or violence is automatically a war crime, even when it occurs under circumstances that for all intents and purposes look like combat to those caught in its midst.

Imagine if, mere days before our independence from the British Crown, British troops had systematically rounded up, tortured, and killed most of the brightest minds in our country (including our founding fathers) as a final act of oppression against a nation yearning to be free.

"I understand much of the internet trolling, the shit flinging, the active and passive acts of oppression are about pushing me and people like me out," she writes.

"And today I surmise that those suggestions of androgyny, polymorphism, and indeterminacy that colored the post-Beatles (post-Elvis?) pop-music scene still threaten the conventions that underlie many acts of oppression".

Entifadh K. Qanbar, director of the Washington office of the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition group, argued that while many people in the Iraqi bureaucracy committed acts of oppression, most were unwilling pawns of Mr. Hussein and his family.

"We can understand the Jordanian worry and concern regarding the possibility of forced eviction and a new wave of immigration, due to Israeli pressure and acts of oppression by the occupation troops," the newspaper said.

"As a public figure," he writes, "I came close to what Andrew Sullivan called the 'ubiquitous, vaguely homoerotic' climate of the 'male pop groups of that period,' and today I surmise that those suggestions of androgyny, polymorphism and indeterminacy that colored the post-Beatles (post-Elvis?) pop music scene still threaten the conventions that underlie many acts of oppression".

Help us recognize our unconscious prejudices and the acts of oppression we unintentionally commit.