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were oppressed

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Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.

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It is likely that these cryptic intronic regions were oppressed in the parental genomes and the oppression was released after retroposition.

We were oppressed; we were forced to do it.

"We welcome all those who were oppressed under Mubarak.

It presumes that many people became radical after they were oppressed.

But if he were oppressed by fear he might feel differently, he added.

Another said she felt sorry for them because they were oppressed by men.

Saddam Hussein, a Sunni, tried to co-opt them all; all were oppressed.

Syrians, like Libyans, Egyptians, and Tunisians, were oppressed, suffocated, tortured and even killed for daring to express their religious beliefs.

Women rejected the characterisation that they were oppressed, and the schools wrote to Morgan, saying the notice had been misrepresented.

Even so, the Iranian government gave refuge to several prominent Shiite political parties that were oppressed during Saddam Hussein's rule.

"We could not go on reckoning the years during which we were oppressed by kings as part of our lifetime.

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