Sentence examples for degree of oppression from inspiring English sources
Ms. Kabakov said the degree of oppression in the culture there now made the visit uncomfortable.
But no degree of oppression and no level of desperation can ever justify the killing of innocent civilians.
"Deep Space Homer" is the source of the "Overlord meme", which is lifted from Kent Brockman's line and is commonly used on internet forums to express mock submission, usually for the purpose of humor or when a "participant vastly overstates the degree of oppression or social control expected to arise from the topic in question".
You might as well argue that white people suffer from racism exactly as much as black people, or that there are no hierarchies of privilege and degrees of oppression in this world.
His point was that comparisons generate heat but no light: he quoted Malcolm X on degrees of oppression -- "If the knife is nine inches in my back and it's withdrawn to six inches" -- am I better off?
Street prostitution is seen as implying frequent health-risks for workers with a high degree of victimization and oppression, while indoor prostitution is a subject of much debate.
Task labor introduced a degree of freedom into slavery's oppression.
Explicitly, it has been about race and, to a lesser degree, sex — a policy to make up for centuries of oppression and to ensure diversity.
The difference between anti-oppression and anti-racism lies in the fact the anti-oppression does not predefine oppression from a specific category or mechanism, whereas anti-racism takes race/racism as the point of entry in its analysis of oppression, power and privilege.
His informing idea was that responsibility — hard work, education, the moral life — brought a degree of freedom and independence even in oppression.
