Sentence examples similar to it was oppressed from inspiring English sources
This wasn't because I was oppressed, it was because I was horny, naive and desperate for attention - in that regard, I think I was completely normal.
It is time when those committed to human rights need to recommit themselves to the defense of human dignity — as a universal value — wherever it is oppressed or violated, and do so without apology.
This, in his view, has always been true: "Commerce is sometimes destroyed by conquerors, sometimes cramped by monarchs; it traverses the earth, flies from the places where it is oppressed, and stays where it has liberty to breathe" (SL 21.5).
They think it's oppressing the children when in fact it's not.
Lydia was oppressed in Cameroon.
"Our culture was oppressed," Tokes said.
It does so in the name of the "ordinary people", whom, it claims, are oppressed by the "anti-Trump and anti-Brexit cultural elites", "feministic elites", "green elites" and "cosmopolitan politicians".
This was, in other words, the now familiar sentiment of a majority that believes it has been oppressed by excessive accommodation of the minority.
A group can properly ask for international recognition when it is being oppressed so harshly that self-rule becomes the best method to save lives and liberties.
There are scientists who revolutionize their fields as we know it, but are oppressed by physical ailments and homophobia.
