Sentence examples for defeating oppression from inspiring English sources

The Bible is full of tales of the underdog defeating oppression through faith and wisdom, and nowhere more so than in the Book of Judith, where the heroine uses wily deceit to convince her countrymen that God would keep them safe.

Genres like Blues, Jazz, Swing and Beat music presented a soothing soundtrack for stories of intense struggle to defeat oppression.

Defeat Oppression".

— but it can be the starting-point to investigating what it means to be a victim, what it means to be defeated, what political oppression does.

I'd like to think I could die for any of the causes they fought for – to defeat imperialism, racism, oppression, corruption, to defend the weak and the vulnerable, or my right to practice my faith.

They have also reminded eastern Europeans that the Red Army, after defeating the Germans in 1945, brought them oppression rather than freedom.

(However, when the Civil War erupted, Delany was persuaded by Frederick Douglass, his former colleague in publishing The North Star newspaper, to join other Black men in forming a regiment to aid the Union forces in defeating the Confederate Army and the South's agenda for the continuation of the enslavement and oppression of Black people).

It's very defeating.

Or, to put it another way, a recognition of class shouldn't be an alternative to combatting oppression so much as a basis on which oppression can be defeated.

What does political oppression, defeat, physical suffering do?

The Thatcher doctrine, that tyranny and oppression (when it affected British interests) must be fought and defeated, had a far greater influence than has perhaps yet been acknowledged.