Sentence examples for means of oppression from inspiring English sources

But it will be as a pillar of freedom and tolerance, never as a means of oppression.

"The airport was at one time a means of oppression, because it was for Saddam's forces," he said, "but now, it is a site of liberation because it connects Kurdistan to the world".

"I don't want this technology to be seen as a means of oppression," said Trevor Blackwell, founder and chief executive of Anybots, the maker of QB, a $15,000 mobile robot that balances on two wheels like a Segway and will be shipped commercially beginning this fall.

A.C. Grayling, an academic philosopher, has a fiercer subject in view: he wants to track men's arguments about the nature and source of morality by expounding the evils of religion and lauding the progress of science.Religion, of course, deserves all it gets from him as a means of oppression and a cause of war.

But I think sometimes it's much harder for women to say, 'I'm not into that,' or 'Please, I don't want to do that, let's do something else,' than it is to say, 'Sure.' Putting all the onus on the person who doesn't have that fetish or desire, particularly if the person who doesn't have that desire is the woman, really reproduces a lot of old structures and means of oppression for women".

It is a secret, hidden business, seen by those who adhere to it as a rite of passage, by those who oppose it as a means of oppression, and by lawmakers as illegal.

Although my sister and I were invariably given the biggest and best morsels, we experienced our family meals as a means of parental oppression.

As human rights activists, free speech is our main means of fighting oppression.

He claims he "gets it" then proceeds to invent ways to inoculate himself (and most whites) from the means of racial oppression that infest the structural systems of our society.

"Jim Crow began as mere pop culture entertainment at the expense of America's freed slaves and became the means of their oppression," he continued, noting that the character's name was eventually lent to laws enforcing racial segregation in the U.S.

Moreover, as critical as the government's interest may be in detaining those who actually pose an immediate threat to the national security of the United States during ongoing international conflict, history and common sense teach us that an unchecked system of detention carries the potential to become a means for oppression and abuse of others who do not present that sort of threat.