Sentence examples for have been oppressing from inspiring English sources

"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.

Mr. Higham's last book, "Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture Yalele, 2001) also focused on the broad mainstream of American culture, rather than the groups it may have been oppressing.

The Shape of the Table, which premiered in November 1990, the first anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, explores the transfer of power in a former communist state from the old political commissars to the dissidents they have been oppressing.

In fact, Christians have been oppressing and punishing and killing one another over small details of theology and practice for much of our 2,000 years of existence.

This is also the case when it comes to the uprisings of Arab people against the regimes that have been oppressing them, and that have chosen to confront these uprisings with further repression instead of reform.

"Ranchers have been oppressed long enough".

For years, we have been oppressed".

For tribal people who have been oppressed by the system.

"We are coming today because we have been oppressed for five years.

That's probably part of the reason women have been oppressed and made to feel ashamed.

"Women have been oppressed for how many years now?" said Gloria Peek, who is 61 and a United States coach.