Sentence examples for oppressed lives from inspiring English sources

Riff Raff (Ken Loach, 1990) Loach's treatment of working class and oppressed lives is so sharp that when other films are described "Ken Loach-style" it's never meant as a negative.

Blacks still live oppressed and segregated lives in townships and homelands.

For many it was a need to remove what they saw as eyesores; for others it was an act of getting rid of any form of reminder of that grim period that had oppressed their lives.

"For years, Israel has severely oppressed Palestinians living in the center of the city," notes B'Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, in a recent report.

Palestinians -- both Muslim and Christian -- have lived oppressed, stunted and often shortened lives for decades, and will continue to do so for as long as the state of Israel can use the threat of annihilation against them, allowing security to trump human rights and freedoms, in order to deny their internationally legal and Covenant-based responsibilities.

"Because we live in a really bad situation here and have been oppressed all our lives, our dream today is very big.

They oppress people living there".

I can resist hunger, But I can't live oppressed.

2. Oppressed citizens - living under authoritarian regimes, dictatorships and mafia states.

"It had likable, realistic, healthy Jewish characters, bursting with their lives, not oppressed by where they come from," said Ms. Klein, 35, who is a writer and tutor and a vice president at the Klein Group, her family's far-flung real estate business.

Such language is furthered by Friere's discussion of the duality of the oppressed and wanting to "live authentically".