Sentence examples for would have oppressed from inspiring English sources

Some argue that our culture would have oppressed such behaviour.

Briony knew that if she had travelled two hundred miles to a strange house, bright questions and jokey asides, and being told in a hundred different ways that she was free to choose, would have oppressed her.

Hoover recalls Carmichael asking him, "Why would you be so committed to turning over the minds of your children to people who have oppressed them for 400 years?

Several have oppressed Shiite populations and suspect Iran is fomenting unrest.

You have oppressed the weak and exploited the marginalized.

How many women must he (Mulakkal) have oppressed?" she said.

"It was not a matter of being forced, but if anyone stayed over there they would not have been supplied with anything and they would have been oppressed," he added.

Feminism told men they'd been part of a patriarchy that had oppressed women for millennia, and they'd better shape up.

Who would have thought, a month ago, that a government that had oppressed its own people for over three decades would fall simply because a bunch of people marched in the streets and refused to give up?

"See, Dad, you've oppressed them just like the bourgeoisie oppresses the workers.

This rabbinic approach gave Roth a way out of the hermetic modernism that had oppressed him.