Sentence examples for whose oppression from inspiring English sources
In this progressive conception, Jews are dismissed as a group of privileged whites whose oppression need not be prioritized or "centered," if it even exists anymore.
The government that hopped into bed with the DUP, a similarly backwards-looking party whose oppression of Northern Irish women through the denial of their reproductive rights would have made any other party appropriately squeamish?
In Gender Trouble, Butler questioned the validity of much feminist political theorizing by suggesting that the subject whose oppression those theories attempted to explain women"—is an exclusionary construct that "achieves stability and coherence only in the context of the heterosexual matrix".
"I wrote that out of my system". Her catharsis took the form of "Motherlines," a novel in which the male characters were what she has called "Nixonian men" whose oppression of women drew cries of outrage from male and female readers alike.
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, women are alarmed by the planned departure of U.S. troops and the negotiations with the Taliban, terrified by the possible return to power of a group whose oppression of women has included the imposition of the burqa — taking the Iranian dress code one step further and covering even their faces.
We rightly want to draw attention to those for whom there are no official commemorations, and whose oppression is barely acknowledged; but we have instead allowed ourselves to be further isolated, and allowed the false smear of anti-semitism to be directed at us.
He's making a citizen's arrest — Claudette is nothing more than a disobedient "nigger" whose further oppression will feed his scarecrow ego.
A caricature of a redneck, he tries to make a citizen's arrest of a black woman, Claudette Sullivan (Joniece Abbott-Pratt), who, to him, is nothing more than a disobedient "nigger" whose further oppression will feed his scarecrow ego.
Just as the Blackberry was once hailed as the great liberator, enabling executives to work more flexible hours, the internet messaging mobile phone has become an instrument of oppression whose owners are constantly at their boss's beck and call.
An imperial sideshow it may have been at the time, but the Sudan campaign is now revealed as a harbinger of a very modern kind of warfare in which a superpower imposes its will on remote peoples whose dispossession and oppression has led some to cast aside all good sense and cling to apocalyptic notions of paradise on earth.
It consists of him; his assistant, Jamila Raquib, whose family fled Soviet oppression in Afghanistan when she was 5; a part-time office manager and a Golden Retriever mix named Sally.
