Sentence examples for current oppression from inspiring English sources

Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra sent out a tweet yesterday comparing the current oppression of Iranians and their reactions on Twitter to "what we did in the House last year when Republicans were shut down in the house".

Discussion around Roma identity demonstrated congruence between the Roma community and service providers around the absence of homeland, historical and current oppression, and knowledge of stereotypes surrounding the Roma population.

And to think that you could possibly get a correct answer from a call from Turkey to an Iranian living under the current oppression in Iran is a level of desperation that is hard to fathom.

One of the thrills of watching "Mad Men" is seeing the early 1960s as an alternating current of oppression and optimism: the cold war, the space race, the escalation of the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution.

Sadly, the adverse effects of such rhetoric as the "global terrorist network" are apparent, and it is feeding some impressionable young Muslim minds that fall into the trap of believing this united front exists and represents the face of Muslims' current global struggle against oppression.

Kweli updates the song to current forms of oppression and new challenges in the struggle for civil rights.

Not identifying with disability and diminishing one's bodily needs stems directly from historical and current experiences of oppression.

Few, however, were able to link current and historical oppression and marginalization with disengagement.

Though set in 1986 Iran, Soraya's plight and that of her one defender, her aunt, Zahra--played by Oscar nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo--is similar to that of the formerly liberated Iranian women, who, chafing under the current regime's oppression, have been at the forefront of the protests happening now since the Presidential election was stolen by conservative incumbent MaMoud Amadinajad.

Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" was the essential song to question our current systems of oppression and empowered youth to have a more socially conscious mind in a time where drugs infiltrated the streets.

"Current examples of reproductive oppression," he says, "include limiting access to reproductive healthcare, family caps in welfare, and federal and state laws restricting access to abortion". 1 - Every woman has the right to decide when to have children. 2 - Every woman has the right to decide if she will not have a child.