Sentence examples for long oppressed from inspiring English sources

Turkey has long oppressed its sizable Kurdish minority.

A region long oppressed by an autocratic central power may well owe nothing to that power.

Having been long oppressed, Iraq's Shias feel that they are gathering strength and are owed their place in the sun.

Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic long oppressed the Kosovo Albanians, as well as perpetrating war and ethnic cleansing right across former Yugoslavia.

Shiite Arabs, the majority of the population, were long oppressed under Baathist rule and are eager to assume power.

The deadlock demonstrated the new muscle of Iraq's majority Shiite Muslims, long oppressed by Saddam Hussein and his predecessors.

Or maybe the long-oppressed majority would take power, then turn around and oppress the minority that had been so cruel to them.

Iraq's long-oppressed Shias must become the greatest power in the land.

Religious books, especially those catering to Iraq's long-oppressed Shiite Muslims, flourished.

The enemy arrives and systematically starts killing the long-oppressed minority to which the brothers belong.

The draft charter seeks to empower Bolivia's long-oppressed indigenous majority.