The word "oppressing" is correct and usable in written English.
It's typically used in the context of a powerful person or group of people using their power to take away freedoms or oppress somebody else. For example, "The ruler was oppressing his own people, taking away their basic rights."
We could not let this continue, the extremists oppressing the people while Bashar continues to do his own oppression.
Asghar Hatami, 25, a construction businessman who backed Mr Ahmadinejad in last year's presidential election, said: "I hope the 12th imam's return would bring justice, peace and fairness in the world and put an end to countries like America oppressing Islamic countries, including Iran".
On the other hand, the opposition portrays the trials as proof of an anti-Islamic government oppressing the pious.
Eight years have passed since the Gulf war, yet Saddam Hussein is still in power in Iraq, still oppressing his people, still shooting at the American and British warplanes that try to contain him, still hiding some of the arms, or the wherewithal for making them, that the UN Security Council said he should give up before the trade embargo would be lifted.
He planned meticulously for everything from road building to oppressing the opposition except, that is, for his own demise.It came six months ago on August 20th, following illness at the age of 57, and left the state reeling.
Far from oppressing women, Islam endows them with plenty of rights; the problem lies in implementing those rights.
Across Pakistan, meanwhile, for reasons including rising inflation and his pro-America policies, the general is fast becoming unpopular; and the Baluch insurgents have drawn sympathy.Mr Bugti has a dreadful history of oppressing his people, yet the grievances he claims to be fighting for are real.
These include stalwarts of the "deep state", the opaque, Mubarak-era civil service and security apparatus that spent decades oppressing Islamists.
Samantha Lewthwaite, who was married to Germaine Lindsay, one of the 7/7 bombers and himself a convert, is wanted by Kenyan police in connection with an alleged bomb plot.Even without the taint of extremism, women are sometimes pitied for joining a religion accused of oppressing them.
Unhappy because they have not ended up with marketable shares in a public company whose share price has trebled since 1999, they allege that Mr Gabelli and the private firm's other directors are "guilty of looting the assets of the company, breaching their fiduciary duties to its shareholders and oppressing its minority shareholders".
