Sentence examples for state oppression from inspiring English sources

This right is a cornerstone of democracy, and a crucial bulwark against state oppression.

The world once stood with ordinary South Africans in their struggle against state oppression and brutality.

"Hashmi was wrongly incarcerated and was a victim of state oppression," he added.

State oppression in China is not a major theme of a novel set in Antarctica.

I had expected to meet someone bearing the visible strain of state oppression, but Woeser seemed unbowed.

After colonisation, after European theft, after forms of state-created horror, it promised a world free from state oppression.

Imagine what the results would have been if it had been a fair and free campaign considering almost half the electorate voted "NO" Obviously, such a narrow margin under intense state oppressions and political conditions will be an international legitimacy problem for Mr. Erdogan.

The arrest itself is hardly the best example of either racial profiling or police-state oppression.

The book also states: "Oppression and persecution bred by anti-Semitism are accepted by the Zionist movement [to bring about] immigration to Palestine.

People came from all over Europe to help Berliners tear down what had become one of the world's preeminent symbols of police-state oppression.

"Part I deals with the general state of oppression in our time," Tippett wrote about the work.