Sentence examples for escape oppression from inspiring English sources

Activists — even slaves — have used the courts to weaponize American ideals and escape oppression.

During and after World War II, many leading Romanian artists and intellectuals emigrated to elsewhere in Europe and to North America to escape oppression.

They seek work abroad for exactly the same reasons we would if we filled their shoes: to feed their children, to seek opportunity, to escape oppression.

Journalism- Many people leave lucrative and respectable professions in their home countries for various reasons, such as to escape oppression or make a better life for their children.

This was on the inhuman basis that as more of those men, women and children seeking to escape oppression drowned, it would deter others from attempting the crossing.

Gambia says it will take all Rohingya refugees as part of its "sacred duty" to alleviate the suffering of fellow Muslims flooding south-east Asia to escape oppression.

This America was a land of limitless opportunity, a magnet to those escaping oppression, offering prince and pauper alike the possibility to dream big.

Still, immigration lawyers said at the time, whenever an asylum seeker in a high-profile situation is found to have lied, it can jeopardize the prospects of those with genuine claims of having escaped oppression.

But as Mr. Eisenberg put it, "Those people in the graveyard who escaped oppression in Europe would have haunted the place if people in shiny boots and revolvers were in there anyway".

As Though She Were Sleeping is an homage to dreaming, "the only way of escaping oppression, be it familial, religious, or political". This is a fiction based on the true story Occupation Layer: PALESTINE featuring members of Palestinian Dance Troupe El-Funoun from Ramallah.

Yellow Dogs were a little-known Iranian punk band who escaped oppression in Tehran to bring their music to Brooklyn.