Sentence examples for mechanisms of oppression from inspiring English sources

A more likely outcome is that, as resistance from the country's conservative religious establishment grows, the government will ratchet up its mechanisms of oppression.

In their famous book Dialectic of Enlightenment Marcuse's colleagues Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno attempted to demonstrate the Enlightenment embodied a tension between its own project of liberation and its own new mechanisms of oppression and domination.

It is an internal mechanism of oppression.

People claim faith as a mechanism of oppression.

The party pretending to be an all-inclusive, pan-Arab movement became a mechanism of oppression in the service of minorities.

Mid-level officials in a ruling party mechanism cannot be automatically labeled as enthusiastic or even willing supporters of the machinery of oppression.

The difference between anti-oppression and anti-racism lies in the fact the anti-oppression does not predefine oppression from a specific category or mechanism, whereas anti-racism takes race/racism as the point of entry in its analysis of oppression, power and privilege.

Corruption is but one form of oppression.

Out of oppression arises hope".

Well, it has a history of oppression, slavery and colonialism.

This area has a history of oppression — and resistance.