"external oppression" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to oppressive forces coming from outside of someone or something, for example: "The government used external oppression to keep the people powerless."
To borrow philosophical terminology, it was a war for negative freedom – a war against external oppression.
Perhaps the book's key achievement is to link external oppression so intimately to internal, psychological damage.
Others may see in Gaddafi's death the creation of a martyr to the cause of Arab and African independence from colonial-style, external oppression.
And it's the interaction between external oppression that we can fight, oppose, despise and the really complicated ways in which we accept it, and feel that we deserve it at some level.
Their initial focus on external oppression that manifested itself in segregation, social injustice, and discrimination led to a realization of the ways in which they had internalized that oppression.
Skillfully mixing spoken word with contemporary and Haitian folkloric dance, the show addresses color prejudice, assimilation, and the many meanings of possession, more concerned with intra-group tension than external oppression.
Freedom from external subjugation, oppression and domination; freedom from internal limitations, conditioning and restraints.
He implied domestic surveillance could bolster international oppression.
In Ukraine I found joy in life, freedom and civilization". Russia's internal oppression and external marauding depend on its ability to wrap 11% of the Earth's landmass in hermetically sealed truthlessness, unspooled now to the rest of the globe.
Idealized images of pregnancy might suggest that miraculous transformations into motherhood occur in a vacuum, but in reality, some women approach this phase of their life under a variety of external pressures, including political oppression and social unrest.
Her opposition to the regime doesn't extend to the importation of Iraqi-style democracy - she is at once fighting traditional patriarchal sexism of formalised into institutional oppression, and the external aggression and ambitions of the imperialists.
