Sentence examples for oppressed society from inspiring English sources

In an oppressed society in which family solidarity and the national cause take precedence over everything else, one can imagine the scandal.

"This is hip-hop's true form, as a vehicle for social change in an oppressed society".

Instead of the stagnant picture of an oppressed society, stories are emerging offering a glimpse at the fashion, culture, music, and social lives of young Iranians.

The scenes are that of an oppressed society, almost wartime period, where some citizens have more than others and many are suffering tremendously.

When I consider Mary's life as it was actually lived, however, and the earthly reality of this olive-skinned, dark-eyed daughter of Israel who struggled to survive in a hardscrabble, politically oppressed society, a different image emerges.

The idea that men are oppressed by society was later championed by Warren Farrell, whose 1993 book The Myth of Male Power inspired Elam and many other current-day men's rights activists (MRAs).

If women are to be described as currently oppressed in societies like the United States, on the equity feminist view, one must show that the state fails to protect women, as a group, from sustained and systematic rights violations.

"Tradition" is a good reason for keeping people oppressed, keeping societies in the dark and keeping a country running based on repugnant human rights abuses.

Many experts on shame believe that, as John Bradshaw says in his book Healing the Shame That Binds You, LGBT children "are the most viciously shamed and oppressed in our society".

It is a story about the ways in which women are oppressed in a society run by men for their own benefit (no one involved seems to have a problem with the word "patriarchy"), and about how certain women take advantage of the situation to ally themselves with male power for personal gain.

The group asserts that men are oppressed in American society and aims to push back against feminism.