Sentence examples for period of oppression from inspiring English sources

Citizens see the use of Islamic law and customs as a way of bringing order to an uncertain emergence from a period of oppression and chaos.

After the long period of oppression, these were hailed as beacons of light, although they did not go as far as enlightened minds expected.

The Finns, settled in broad autonomy, called the integration policy "the First Period of Oppression, 1899 1905", and plans for disengagement from Russia or sovereignty for Finland were drawn up for the first time.

The more severe programme of Russification, called "the Second Period of Oppression, 1908 1917" by the Finns, was halted on 15 March 1917 by the removal of the Russian Czar Nicholas II.

The years between 1956 and 1970 were a period of oppression and instability in the Dominican Republic as the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo came to an end with his assassination in 1961, only to be followed by military rule, revolution, intervention by the United States, and further dictatorship.

"Certain Buddhist groups have believed that Maitreya's coming was imminent, particularly in periods of oppression," Mr. Reynolds said.

Restless preoccupations with national identity or ties to the land have often been prologues to periods of oppression; if a country keeps defining how people belong, it also defines how people do not belong.

The story of Tunisian Jewry however has been a troubled one with periods of oppression.

A military coup in Brazil in 1964 had ushered in a period of governmental oppression, which initially spared artistic activities.

But gradually his mood darkened, and he turned to poems of confession and solitude, patriotic poems about the period of Russian oppression, desolate ballad themes, and mythical motifs.

Tom Bower London While VE Day will bring happy memories for millions, there are many more millions who remember year 1945 as the beginning of a very long period of suffering, oppression, and grave violations of human rights.