The phrase "oppression upon" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to the oppressive actions someone might take against another person or group of people. For example, "The government responded to the growing unrest with more oppression upon the people."
She writes about how that fear leads to silence, and how: We must paradoxically be "oppressed" and yet bear none of the markings of that oppression upon our consciousness; we can never bear baggage or scars; as people of colour we can never show our veil of double consciousness, per W E B DuBois.
And they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
It's an oppression upon the soul that's hard to describe.
Prominent MRA activists like Roosh V know that many young white men feel a voyeuristic pleasure in imagining the weight of oppression upon them because that way they don't have to deal with the truth.
This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us".
"Of this I am certain," Burke declared, "that in a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority". In the aftermath of the French Revolution, his fears were widely shared by conservatives and self-described "liberals".
The Amnesty International report – based on more than 150 witness accounts – charges the Islamist militants with the deaths of more than 5,500 civilians and paints the most detailed picture yet of the oppression inflicted upon young women.
And then, rather disconcertingly, it suddenly occurred to me that this was the same Pete King who has spent the past 15 years similarly eviscerating the British, or the "Bruddush", for "centuries of oppression" inflicted upon the Irish people.
His story became legend and came to represent "the myth of extreme colonial oppression, based upon the catastrophic climax of German rule in Douala".
I fully admit to having little direct experience with African American struggle in South Carolina, let alone historic oppression inflicted upon the black community.
The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by William the Conqueror in 1078, and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new ruling elite.
