Sentence examples for in oppression of from inspiring English sources

In diverse democracies, the temptation of leaders to exploit ethnic identity for political ends is an all too frequent source of major conflict, sometimes culminating in oppression of minorities and even genocide.

That lawsuit, filed on behalf of Robert F. Wardrop II of Grand Rapids, Mich., and other shareholders, says that Alticor executives engaged in "oppression of minority shareholders under the laws of Bermuda" by forcing them to sell back to the company shares of the publicly traded Asian subsidiary, which was organized in Bermuda.

The Israeli government insists that anyone who criticises its human rights record is "anti-semitic", a participant, in other words, in the oppression of the Jews.

That allows America to make it clear that Vietnam will pay a limited price, in embarrassment and ebbing support, if it goes beyond certain informal lines in its oppression of dissidents.

The power vacuum left behind in the wake of the Iraq war and a settlement that resulted in the oppression of the Sunni minority undoubtedly helped to prepare fertile ground for today's extremists.

It has a long record of supporting Israel in its oppression of the Palestinians.

The United States could have accepted the permanent division of Europe and been complicit in the oppression of others.

The most popular is William Pollack's 1998 "Real Boys," which describes its subjects as trapped against their will in the oppression of traditional masculinity.

Later, Shell was accused of colluding with the Nigerian government in the oppression of the Ogoni people and failing to speak out against the execution of one of their leaders.

That fire they had in their bellies, that righteous indignation… it must be a shock to find they've joined the ranks of a chattering establishment, complicit in the oppression of others.

In "the oppression of the Negro," he said, he had found a subject worthy of those writers' genius: "If Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him".