Sentence examples for ongoing oppression from inspiring English sources

"With the ongoing oppression, imprisonment, forced confessions, and show trials the government cannot be Islamic," he said in an open letter published on his website.

Because of this ongoing oppression, Deaf West's Spring Awakening is worth seeing for its triumphant presentation of Deaf talent and language.

The 1968 Olympics in Mexico City exposed both the repressive nature of the Mexican government and the ongoing oppression of African Americans in the United States.

This was the first time an Australian prime minister had frankly, without qualification, acknowledged the violence, sickness, dispossession and ongoing oppression that colonialism had imposed on Indigenous people.

"Every time I have a glass of wine or something, it's like, 'I can.'" Roach has extensive experience of domestic violence and the justice system, and says both are inextricable from the ongoing oppression of Indigenous Australians since colonisation.

And we would look beyond the picket fence and rejoin the picket lines in protest about the ongoing oppression and anti-gay bigotry we still face, despite legislative equality.

The "push" factors for the exodus were poor economic conditions in the South exacerbated by the limitations of sharecropping, farm failures, and crop damage from the boll weevil as well as ongoing racial oppression in the form of Jim Crow laws.

So why is it that we're only willing to work on really cool long-term goals like electric cars and space exploration, and not the messy short-term stuff like inequality, housing and the ongoing brutal oppression of refugees and immigrants?

Lissaint points much of his poetry at people like her who seem oblivious to ongoing racial oppression in this country.

Many locals I spoke to believe Trump's intention to ban individual travel to Cuba will do nothing to entice the Castro regime to end the ongoing political oppression of its people.

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