In March 1999, America launched a three-day air campaign against 51 targets near Belgrade to intimidate the Serbian dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, into easing oppression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
The first white settlers, known as Afrikaners, had brought racial segregation to South Africa in the 17th century, and British colonial rule did little to ease the oppression.
Domestic oppression eased, most obviously in the arts, in the days leading up to the Prague Spring.
After years of appeals by Washington for Cuba to ease restrictions on emigration and to halt oppression of dissidents, the Clinton administration is asking Castro to cut off the flow of rafters.
They left in 1991 to escape the oppression that seemed to have eased little since the fall of communism in 1989.
Historically, African-Americans with identifiably dark skin have had only two choices when confronting racial discrimination and oppression: either they could try to ease their burden through accommodation, making the best of a bad situation, or they could engage in protest and active resistance.
"What is perhaps most surprising about the rising oppression of women in Israel is the ease with which non-ultra-Orthodox people and groups capitulate to ultra-Orthodox demands to erase women from the public," Sztokman writes.
The oppression of secular music and dancing began to ease between about 1715 and 1725 and the level of musical activity was reflected in a flood of musical publications in broadsheets and compendiums of music such as the makar Allan Ramsay's verse compendium The Tea Table Miscellany (1723) and William Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius (1725).
The oppression of secular music and dancing began to ease between about 1715 and 1725 and the level of musical activity was reflected in a flood musical publications in broadsheets and compendiums of music such as the makar Allan Ramsay's verse compendium The Tea Table Miscellany (1723) and William Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius (1725).
Clinton hoped it would turn the tide against child labour, worker oppression and trade union bans - and stamp his legacy on the talks in a bid to ease the blight of impeachment and sexual scandal that haunt him in his last 'lame-duck' year in office.
