Sentence examples for oppress to from inspiring English sources

Racism in America has always been a matter of power – to enslave, to kill without consequence, to oppress, to segregate, to silence.

She moved from utopianism ("When you want to change everything, you're forced to oppress") to more modest commitments — Bosnia, human rights — and from a relativism that could forgive Communist regimes their little transitional problems to an absolutism requiring that all societies honor certain basic freedoms.

Alabama will try its best to oppress him, to blitz him, to charge him.

The aid these vampire governments received was used to oppress people, to fund wars or police states.

Alternatively, societies that are oppressive make it irrational in general for the people who are oppressed to trust those who oppress them (Baier 1986, 259; Potter 2002, 24).

This objection holds that it is easy for those who are not oppressed to advocate nonviolence and indeed, that the powerful can use the ideology of pacifism as a tool with which to further oppress those who are unwilling to take up arms in defense of human rights.

Do I look oppressed to you? #CanYouHearUsNow pic.twitter.com/NVVMJDbnlJ.

Women are oppressed to an extent that was unimaginable a few years ago.

She is the author of 'From the Oppressed to the Terrorist: American Muslim Women Caught in the Crosshairs of Intersectionality.'.

Quite offensive there, Camille, but not as offensive as your idea that women need to be oppressed to create something viable.

You see, when people are oppressed to a certain point, they end up feeling like there is no other option than to fight back.