"This is a society that oppresses people," Coogan went on.
Others saw in them an indictment of a culture that oppresses women.
It is the wraparound presence, not the specific evils, of the machine that oppresses us.
"There's a certain Slant of light,/ Winter Afternoons - / That oppresses, like the Heft/ Of Cathedral Tunes".
Whatever happened was the result of American policy that oppresses Muslims.
Astrologers point to an invisible world, freeing its subscribers from the visible one that oppresses them.
The regime that oppresses Iran thrives on anti-Americanism, grievance, and paranoia, and would be loath to give them up.
Muslim feminists argue that their religion does not have to be practised in a way that oppresses women.
Black women's attempts to voice the fact that white women, like white men, benefit from a system that oppresses minorities, is often written off as separatism.
"Many of us in the house see the whole system of private property as being something that oppresses people," Tim said.
More than that, it is reactionary, because while it purports to embrace a nihilist neutrality, it endorses a capitalist status quo that oppresses the poor.
