Sentence examples for were oppressed for from inspiring English sources

It's certainly a vast improvement over a country in which millions were oppressed for being born into the wrong caste or gender or family.

We were oppressed for so long we were forced to create our own cultural identity that existed outside of the heterosexual spectrum.

Veteran Saudi reformer Wajeha al-Huwaider believes Muslim women were oppressed for centuries and imprisoned "in the dungeons incorrectly referred to as 'their homes.'" It is no easy task for captives to release themselves, and then only to confront a society preoccupied with patriarchal control of dress, choice of spouse, fertility, travel, education and so on.

"We are coming today because we have been oppressed for five years.

"In England, people lived in a society that had been oppressed for so much longer.

As a Kurd, he belongs to a minority that was oppressed for years by the Syrian government.

"Women have been oppressed for how many years now?" said Gloria Peek, who is 61 and a United States coach.

"We are a people who have been oppressed for 60 years," said Abu Thabet, the nickname for a Free Syrian Army fighter in Aleppo.

The Palestinians have been oppressed for decades and in Gaza are forced to exist on a tiny, narrow strip of land.

Cubans have been oppressed for more than 50 years and have been denied the freedoms we enjoy in the democratic world; United States policy focuses on them.

The Post recently described her job as to systematically "dismantle arguments about white privilege put forward by black activists and the Democratic Party," and, last week, on her own Twitter feed, she described members of the Black Lives Matter movement, who had gathered to protest a speech she was giving at U.C.L.A., as "a bunch of whiny toddlers, pretending to be oppressed for attention".