Sentence examples for oppressing you from inspiring English sources

"By the 1980s, you had to sleep over; otherwise your parents were oppressing you," Professor Fass said.

"You can get yourself in a state of mind where you feel the whole world is against you because your neighbor is oppressing you in some way".

The same basic forces that are oppressing you are oppressing me -- common cause stuff.

But make them oppress you.

"When you're that resigned and oppressed, you're already dead.

That you did not have to be constrained by your upbringing or by the way you looked or the social context that oppressed you.

It is a self-created safe space: as long as you say you are empowered, anyone who complains is trying to oppress you.

This is a double plundering that leads to further marginalisation: the dominant narrative will oppress you, then co-opt you, and then weave you into your own tiny little section of the tapestry.

Vatnaz in "The Sentimental Education," by contributing to bluestocking journals, writing about fashion, and composing mawkish verse that she proudly sent to her paramour, who — ever incorruptible — felt morally obliged to savage it: "Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art".

"When you have one group who is really being oppressed you have to have the courage to say they are being oppressed," she told the BBC.

If you're a multimillionaire who feels oppressed, you're a Fox News personality".