Sentence examples for oppression on from inspiring English sources

The infamous center of resistance to apartheid — South Africa's entrenched system of white supremacy — the township was a symbol of poverty and oppression on the one hand and heroism and sacrifice on the other.

Analysis directed at exploring how peers were achieving these results suggested five key characteristics of the ways peers were doing their jobs that facilitated their perceived effectiveness: Peers draw upon their own life experiences, especially experiences of distress, poverty, and oppression, on the one hand, and experiences of recovery and resilience, on the other.

In modern psychological usage, the term has been applied to the type of nightmare that gives one the feeling of a heavy weight or oppression on the chest and stomach.

The issue of whether the oppressed are responsible for immorality can be broken down into two questions: Are the oppressed free from responsibility for immoral acts unrelated to their own oppression on the grounds that their socialization plays some role in their acting immorally?

To use the language of oppression on behalf of creatures that in their natures must be free to oppress others is surely to be using the wrong moral language.

The Russian writ runs again in the Caucasus -- but with freedom, not oppression, on its banners.

Lightning flashes of genius, lust and cruelty surge from the background shadows of poverty and oppression – as on one of his admired school-of-Merisi canvases.

Oppression thrives on distance, on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

Thus, the vicious cycle of oppression goes on and on.

But to those who are sure that right is on one side, oppression and injustice on the other, and that the fighting must go on, what matters is precisely who is killed and by whom.

Smith and Tucci listen politely as resident true believers, fresh from study group on roots of women's oppression, elaborate on toxicity of capitalism.