Sentence examples for often oppressed from inspiring English sources

Nerds are often oppressed in life, but on Broadway they're the ruling class.

And women, often oppressed in the largely rural society, voted in the largest proportion ever.

The advantages of this system were the elimination of middlemen, who often oppressed villagers, and an assessment of the tax on land actually cultivated and not merely occupied.

The Shiites, often oppressed by Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Muslim, had been expected to be more enthusiastic about the American presence.

I think about all the people across human history who have felt disadvantaged -- often oppressed or unwanted.

At a time when women had trouble finding work and workers were often oppressed, Boyce felt their rights were important: his businesses employed many women and he supported labor unions.

Rural or puritanical suspicions of pretension, which often oppress her characters, have left their impress on her writing style, too.

He says the influx provides an opportunity to harness the talents of the people and create a great city, but worries that the authorities too often oppress the poor with petty rules and rough treatment.

In arriving at this conviction, we recognize the urgency of survival for individuals and groups not at all well accommodated, and often actively oppressed, by current societies and cultures and by current educational systems.

Because of this, mutants were often persecuted, oppressed and even killed for being different.

It's called Bombastic magazine, and within its pages are dozens of stories from Uganda's socially, legally, and often violently oppressed sexual minority communities.