Sentence examples for various forms of oppression from inspiring English sources

Her stands against various forms of oppression were also stands against roles so deeply ingrained as to seem, to her, essential.

An introductory text rehashes familiar social and political themes entailing various forms of oppression and the male gaze, but many of the artists unearthed are unfamiliar, like Georges de Feure, Auguste-Louis Lepère and Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen.

Tillery gave insight into her advocacy strategy by underscoring the intersectionality of various forms of oppression.

The cultural climate in the Southern states was one of "disenfranchisement, segregation and various forms of oppression, including race-inspired violence," History.com notes.

A key component of the Task Force's philosophy and of its work has long been the principle of "intersectionality," which understands various forms of oppression to operate not independently of each other but rather in a larger, intersecting system, an interlocked "matrix of domination," as Patricia Hill Collins termed it.

It is not just Jews who are moved by the tale of Moses leading the Hebrews out of slavery, but also Christians and Muslims and even secularists, who (sans miracles) have drawn upon the story in movements against various forms of oppression, including America's own civil rights struggles.

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.

Finally, we need to consider what will become of those people, both at home and abroad, who depend on such journalistic enterprises to keep them safe from various forms of torture, oppression, and injustice.

The Fire Nation is trying to conquer everyone else: its war machine has already all but wiped out the Air People, and the Water and Earth Nations suffer under various forms of imperial oppression.

A common, if condescending, view claims that after years of living under various forms of political oppression the Tamils cannot think for themselves.

From the authoritarian rule of Spain under Miguel Primo de Rivera in 1923, which later ended with the fascist rule of Franco, various forms of cultural oppression were enacted against Catalonia and FC Barcelona in particular, causing the club to become a symbol of rebellion.