Sentence examples for downtrodden population from inspiring English sources

It said: "We see the current plan [prepared by the village] as yet another attempt to keep a poor, downtrodden population from advancing; from choosing between partial income and other resources; it is an attempt to prevent the Palestinian woman from breaking the cycle of poverty and depriving her of educational and professional opportunities.

Its response, released in October 2013, read, in part: "We see the current plan as yet another attempt to keep a poor, downtrodden population from advancing..

No one knows, but the anger of a downtrodden population has exploded in the past to the detriment of those doing the treading.

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He was identified as a member of the country's large and downtrodden stateless population known as bidoon.

An impoverished population, downtrodden by decades of military rule, is parsing a raft of initiatives by the new government and trying to understand whether the country's transition from military dictatorship to what the state news media describe as "discipline flourishing democracy" is real.

"If you're singing about being downtrodden, 90% of the population is going to identify with it," Bondage says.

But to suggest that the aspirations of this formerly downtrodden segment of the population can be represented only by essentially sectarian political formations (like those that were put into power in Baghdad by the American occupation) closes off options that might be desired by millions of Iraqis who do not necessarily wish to mix their religion with their politics.

Nowhere in Latin America is the native population more downtrodden and battered than in Guatemala.

The credit for this goes to occupational pension schemes, which have enhanced the incomes of an increasingly numerous section of the population that was previously downtrodden.

"As the Israeli-Palestinian dispute has continued, international sympathy for the besieged Palestinian population has intensified, but something else than genuine feeling for the downtrodden is at work," Mr. Carroll wrote.