Sentence examples for under the oppression from inspiring English sources

Assyria had suffered under the oppression of both the Hurrians and the Mitanni kingdom.

"Almost all of her parts were bigger-than-life women, symbols living under the oppression of feudalism and patriarchy.

If Bavaria is at risk of ending up in a double transfer union under the oppression of both Brussels and Berlin, it should, he thinks, secede.

SO you find yourself responsible for a recently liberated police state, with a Muslim population that has chafed for decades under the oppression of socialist thugs.

A translation by High Peaks Pure Earth, a blog that tracks Tibet news, said the first two lines of one leaflet were: "Tibetan brethren do not fall asleep under the oppression of the Chinese.

When I had the misfortune to fall under the oppression of melancholia (another inadequate word), one of the things to which I owed my escape was an edition of the letters of Bernard Shaw, where I found energy abounding.

But Senator Norma Morandini compared the discrimination gay people faced to the oppression under Argentina's dictators.

Most revolutions have gotten under way not when the oppression was greatest but only after the government had lost confidence in its own cause.

She gave an impassioned speech from the heart, of living under the vilest oppression in America.

We are in near-future South Africa and the country is still suffering under the grinding oppression of apartheid.

Herta Müller, who managed to leave Romania in 1987 after her own long bout of persecution, has written a brooding, fog-shrouded allegory of life under the long oppression of the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu.