Sentence examples for times of oppression from inspiring English sources

Antigone's defiance of Creon has exerted a particular hold on audiences in times of oppression.

"There are those who say you must undertake jihad in times of oppression, and those who say we must stay silent until the reappearance of the Mahdi," he said, referring to the Shiite savior.

You might think the times of oppression had passed, you might think we've got plenty of free choices on our hands.

Stakeholders in the UNC system have federal law at their back, history as their guide and the passion to do what students and faculty members in America have done best in times of oppression: dissent, disrupt and demand.

Ultimately, they were probably brought to the U.S.A. in times of oppression and slavery.

But "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," first published in a French translation from Czech in 1984, is no love letter to the city; it is a message from a time of oppression, and one worth carrying for perspective on a trip through Prague.

Was the genre a way of expression in a time of oppression?

Even during a time of oppression and struggle, the writers crafted a song to deliver a message of equality, success, and celebration of all people.

The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was a guerrilla force that rose up in the highly volatile 1990s – which is now remembered by most Kosovo Albanians as a time of oppression led by late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic.

The exhibition helps us to understand, as Ms. Willis observes, the extent to which the medium allowed a people, even in times of abject oppression, to "experiment with varied ideas of themselves and ultimately to honor how they saw themselves and wished to be seen by others".

His work, made from tin, wire and found metals, explored resilience of the human spirit in times of political oppression and physical constraint.