Sentence examples for oppressive societies from inspiring English sources

Feminist philosophers in general concur that in oppressive societies, oppressed people are stereotyped as untrustworthy, making it difficult in many contexts for these people to be trustworthy (because they are rarely trusted) or to be acknowledged as trustworthy (see e.g. Friedman 2004, 228; Webb 1992, 390, Daukas 2006).

Thomas believes that in oppressive societies, the privileged are socially constituted differently from the oppressed, and so have different emotional configurations, making them experience things in different ways (p. 186).

Troublemakers and dissidents are rarely popular in oppressive societies.

The first was the United States premiere of "One Can't Eat Applause," a powerful, metaphoric dance piece about oppressive societies in general and Latin American dictatorships in particular.

Now, nearly 20 years later — and with a glut of fictional oppressive societies leaving many of us with a bit of dystopia fatigue — she's returned with a concluding volume that gloriously rebels against the restraints of the very genre she helped to create.

He meets regularly with Christian and Jewish leaders, not only to forge a common front but also to explain his belief that Islamic terrorists do not come from another moral universe -- that they arise from oppressive societies that he feels Washington had a hand in creating.

There's the movie itself, whose message preaches individual empowerment over an oppressive society.

Both kept their heads bowed as their national anthem played, refusing to acknowledge an oppressive society.

-Write a monologue for a character living in an oppressive society.

That's not to say the current law would be unwelcome in an oppressive society.

"They haven't been there," she said of Cuba and its Communist, oppressive society.