Sentence examples for had been oppressing from inspiring English sources

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.

"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.

They were Puritans and other sorts of radical Christians whose religion had been oppressed in Britain and who came to the United States to practice their religion in peace.

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

The Emancipation of Mimi was Carey's most expressive album to that point according to Fox News; it signified her creative freedom, as she had been oppressed by the expectations of record executives in the past.

Until the colonial uprising of 1910, the indigenous people of Mexico had been oppressed, their individualism and Aztec origins discouraged.

"For centuries black people have been oppressed, and white people have been oppressing, so we can't possibly expect to reverse this in the 22 years since the end of apartheid," Sithole says.

"The rest of Syria won't accept having part of their territory under the control of the people who've been oppressing them".