Sentence examples for oppressed on from inspiring English sources

"If I were to say in a typical women's-studies class today, 'Female people are oppressed on the basis of reproduction,' I would get called out," Ivey says.

I'm not gay, and have never been oppressed on the grounds of my sexuality, so I can't truly empathise with the liberation that such a quantum shift in both attitudes and the law entails.

If we are to fight a war of liberation, we must liberate all peoples and that will include the Palestinians oppressed on a dailly basis by the state that can be above all others according to US policy in this region.

There's much you can say against Tito indeed, but not that he oppressed nations … AB: No, I said that he oppressed impartially without regard to nationality, but I think he oppressed on a scale which the United Nations could not do.

At least arguably, the Queen of England is not oppressed on sex-marked grounds and so, would not count as a woman on Haslanger's definition.

These are constitutive of being a woman and a man: what makes calling S a woman apt, is that S is oppressed on sex-marked grounds; what makes calling S a man apt, is that S is privileged on sex-marked grounds.

But this either/or view of hierachy, as philosopher Ken Wilber has shown, leads to one of two unfortunate consequences: either an imperial hierarchy which oppresses on the one hand, or a flattened egalitarianism which does not recognize growth and evolution on the other.

But Mr. Blomkamp said he was also trying to comment on how the country's impoverished peoples oppress one another.

For a quarter century thereafter, Myanmar - known to the world as Burma in 1988 - remained one of the saddest, most oppressed nations on earth.

The oppressed can take on awkward forms.

Therefore, I have come to understand that within the numerous forms of oppression, members of targeted (sometimes called "minoritized") groups are oppressed, while on many levels, members of the dominant or agent groups are hurt.