Sentence examples for ethnic oppression from inspiring English sources
'ethnic oppression' is an appropriate phrase for written English
You can use it when referring to discrimination or privilege that is based on an individual's racial, ethnic, or cultural identity. For example, "The criminal justice system is plagued by ethnic oppression, resulting in disproportionate charges and sentences for minority offenders."
After decades of ethnic oppression, the Banyamulenge, third-generation Christians, identify strongly with the tribulations of Old Testament Jews.
Some of the people of Bamian — most of whom are Hazaras, wearily familiar with years of ethnic oppression by those in power in Kabul — remain dubious that wealth will automatically come their way.
With the news dominated by broken treaties, ethnic oppression, raw power grabs and security threats, the Metropolitan Opera's production of Wagner's "Ring" has come back at an opportune time.
If this weary continent is now able to muster an aim, an idea, a vision, it is to put an end to conflict, division and ethnic oppression on its soil.
Ethnic oppression, economic struggle, the consolations of evangelical religion, sexual conflict, fine shades of racism within a single family: all of these turbulent elements are manifested obliquely in dinner-table conversations, casual business meetings, an after-church hymn-singing session, a surprise birthday party and a Scrabble game.
Insurgent movements stem from lack of opportunity among their foot soldiers, vast civil inequality, boredom and outright political and ethnic oppression by the state.
"In sum, we have been told that we cannot teach any race, ethnic or oppression themed lessons or units.
Crimean Tatars, who are a Turkic and mostly Muslim ethnic group, say oppression against them has increased since Russia annexed the peninsula.
After news of the court ruling filtered to his supporters, they denounced the sentence as another example of ethnic and antireligious oppression.
Maru (1971), a novel by Bessie Head, tells a story about the liberation of the San people from ethnic and racial oppression and about the liberation of the Tswana people of Dilepe from their prejudices and hatreds.
The terror in the Nuba Mountains is made more complicated by the fact that the Nuban rebels — who describe decades of ethnic and political oppression by the government of Sudan — have long been allied with the leadership of the new South Sudan.
