Sentence examples for oppressed for from inspiring English sources

"We are coming today because we have been oppressed for five years.

"In England, people lived in a society that had been oppressed for so much longer.

As a Kurd, he belongs to a minority that was oppressed for years by the Syrian government.

Ferociously oppressed for so long, Syria's opposition has struggled to articulate a vision that inspires confidence in the country's minorities.

"Women have been oppressed for how many years now?" said Gloria Peek, who is 61 and a United States coach.

"We are a people who have been oppressed for 60 years," said Abu Thabet, the nickname for a Free Syrian Army fighter in Aleppo.

YOUR HANDS ARE FULL OF BLOOD; cease to do evil, learn to do well; seek judgment; relieve the oppressed; judge for the fatherless; plead for the widow".

In "The Analects," a major text of the Confucian philosophy that dominated (critics would say oppressed) China for most of two millennia, she finds advice for stress reduction, forgiveness, simple living, friendship and achieving one's dreams.

Hence, also, the Egyptian Brothers' recent unlikely alliance with the army, which oppressed them for so long.

Almost miraculously, the people overwhelmed the strongmen who had oppressed them for decades.

But theft was theft, said the prosecution.Darkness to lightAll this added to a weight that had oppressed him for many years.