Sentence examples for continue to oppress from inspiring English sources

"It does look a bit pessimistic, doesn't it?" The effects of Apartheid continue to oppress the most vulnerable in society.

Sison saw U.S. imperialism and the Philippines' feudal state as inextricably linked: in exchange for maintaining access to military bases during the Vietnam War, the U.S. allowed Marcos to continue to oppress the Philippines.

While some progressive sects of Christianity have elected to ignore the distasteful aspects of the Bible, Ms. Dowd points out that many believers continue to oppress women with divine confidence.

The United States tightened economic sanctions against Zimbabwe, blacklisting seven companies tied to the nation's leaders and the ZANU-PF party, and threatened further strictures should the government "continue to oppress its citizens and to resist forthright efforts toward resolving the country's political crisis".

The administration's position, as R. Richard Newcomb, director of the Foreign Assets Control Office at the Treasury Department, told a House subcommittee last month, is that "tourist dollars provide vital hard currency that Castro and his cronies use to continue to oppress Cuba".

Silence allows oppressors to continue to oppress.

It's true that I've never overtly consciously discriminated against anyone, but it's still just as true that I've benefited from a system that oppressed and continues to oppress people of color to this very day.

They found a man whose legacy continues to oppress and disenfranchise people today.

The Philistines continued to oppress Israel, though under Samuel's leadership the Israelites were able to reconquer territory lost to their western enemies.

You are those who have voted in your government who in turn have… continued to oppress our mothers, children, brothers and sisters from the East to the West.

It continues to oppress and exploit … Therefore do not listen to anyone who says that you must give up the struggle against apartheid.