Sentence examples for oppressive arm from inspiring English sources

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But they were a symbol: uniformed, conspicuous, part of an oppressive arm of a repressive establishment.

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Then there is the continuing support this country gives to oppressive regimes, the arms we sell, and the wars we have launched in the past 20 years.

The temptation of black radicalism, of taking up arms against oppressive white-supremacist powers, is present in "Black Panther".

Marxist priests embracing "liberation theology" encouraged peasants to arm themselves against oppressive regimes, and Cuban-backed guerrillas fought American-trained troops.

They had taken up arms against an oppressive colonial administration, after all.

Consequently, the £1bn of assets that underpin these products will no longer be invested in companies involved in activities including arms trade with oppressive regimes, the fossil fuel industry, the fur trade or the tobacco industry.

The arms sales figures are taken from government reports and collated by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT), which estimates that the UK last year approved arms deals worth £2bn to oppressive regimes.

The film centres on one of her father's protégés, Patrick Chamusso, an apolitical black South African who was forced into the arms of the resistance by the oppressive white regime.

As Herzen watched, they gathered at the embassy of the oppressive Austrians, pulled down the enormous imperial coat of arms, stomped on it, then hitched it to a donkey and dragged it through the streets.

A typical clinical feature of acute coronary syndromes is oppressive pain in the chest, possibly radiating to the left arm and the neck.

Armed conflict will always be a risk in a world with oppressive dictators, terrorist groups, ideological extremism, the militarisation of sensitive regions by world powers, and an arms trade on the constant look out for new business.

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