Sentence examples for he was oppressing from inspiring English sources
Lebrón decided to divorce her husband because she felt that he was oppressing her.
Bernard of Clairvaux, the famous Cistercian abbot and religious leader, exerted all his influence to ensure William's suspension, sending a series of complaints to the new pope that William had been intruded by secular powers into the see, that he was oppressing the Cistercian monasteries and that he had irregularly appointed William of St. Barbara as Dean of York.
He comes from a country that most of us know next to nothing about, where he was oppressed not just by a run-of-the-mill totalitarian but by the bizarre and paranoid Enver Hoxha.
He originally followed his father in a military career, but, like others of his day, he was oppressed by the sense of disaster that overwhelmed Japan as the brilliant imperial court life of the Heian era passed into a period of civil wars in the latter half of the 12th century.
Isaiah 53 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isaiah says about Jesus, "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth".
He took your punishment: He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb [peacefully] to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.
But if he were oppressed by fear he might feel differently, he added.
By Joshua Rothman Bicycling to the hospital, Henry Marsh writes, he is oppressed by "a feeling of doom".
Yet he's oppressed by his skills, which link him with the dead but leave him no life of his own.
