Sentence examples for had been oppressed from inspiring English sources

"In England, people lived in a society that had been oppressed for so much longer.

During the lawless period after Japan's 1945 defeat, the Korean-Japanese, who had been oppressed by the Imperial Japanese government, made inroads into the underworld.

Before the invasion of Iraq, in 2003, Administration officials, influenced by neoconservative ideologues, assumed that a Shiite government there could provide a pro-American balance to Sunni extremists, since Iraq's Shiite majority had been oppressed under Saddam Hussein.

He took part in a protest of the Vietnam War that resulted in the takeover of a campus administration building; he claimed that Jerry Rubin was as great an American hero as George Washington, that no one over 35 should be president and that blacks had been oppressed by white Americans for so long that they had every right to shoot them.

We have forgotten that it was George Wallace who so skillfully used "busing" to build his national base, venturing into the northern cities and encouraging the working-class whites of Boston, New York, Baltimore and Chicago -- to name four -- that their interest lay in oppressing blacks just as these workers had been oppressed by the robber barons and union haters.

It envisions a world in which those who had been oppressed will find themselves free and prosperous once again.

Returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1823, he began to preach holy war (jihad) against the Sikhs who had been oppressing their Muslim subjects.

To maintain the balance against the rising tide of the conservatives, he named the leaders of the very group he had been oppressing as members of a "counter-government" that was meant to monitor and criticize Lon Nol's administration.

"Ranchers have been oppressed long enough".

For years, we have been oppressed".

For tribal people who have been oppressed by the system.