Sentence examples for regime of oppression from inspiring English sources

"It also betrays Israel's inherent inability to face such popular, anti-racist, human rights-based and nonviolent challenges to its regime of oppression".

Those various forms of subjugation are demeaning and dehumanising, of course, but slavery is something different – it is a regime of oppression where an individual is unambiguously the property of another.

Though he exaggerates in suggesting that policies like Quebec's enforced egalitarianism in health care or Vermont's small-town zoning preferences amount to full-blown regimes of oppression, "crammed down the throats" of dissenters, they are real infringements on individuals and cannot to be dismissed simply by invoking the will of the majority.

This is distinct from its (already strong) international focus: a feminist consciousness not simply of the way that bioethical issues diversify between countries, but of the global economic and political systems that can hold locally specific regimes of oppression and discrimination in place (see, e.g., Nie 2005).

But here too there is no intent to maintain "an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group".

He reclaimed the governorship in 1970 with the most flagrantly racist campaign of his career, warning that his progressive opponent, Albert Brewer, was using a black "block vote" to install a regime of Federal oppression.

Nothing there comes close to the definition of apartheid under the 1998 Rome Statute: "Inhumane acts... committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime".

This has been replicated in the Rome statute 2002 article 7(1), where it is described as "inhumane acts carried out in the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime".

The novel deals specifically with themes surrounding the nature of male-female relationships during this regime of military oppression.

But even as these Republicans summoned forth this ugly, long-standing racist impulse -- established long ago by the regime of white oppression -- this black president has defended neither himself nor his office against this assault.

We chanted as we passed bemused bystanders, "Egyptians, Join Us!" There was no love lost between the Egyptian people and their regime, but thirty years of oppression had effectively crushed many attempts of opposition.