Sentence examples for yoke of from inspiring English sources

"We're under the yoke of others.

It amounts to "breaking the yoke of the kingship".

Consequently, it was directed more against the "cultural yoke" of the Greeks than the "political yoke" of the Ottoman Empire.

The yoke of reality never seemed to be his thing.

And they labor under the yoke of pride.

Iraq staggered under the yoke of economic sanctions.

Soon, though, Hungary fell under the yoke of Stalin.

The yoke of the European Union is lighter than the yoke of the British Empire, but Ireland has returned to a kind of vassal status all the same.

…thrown off the yoke of Spain after a struggle lasting 80 years.

A Rose-tinted viewFlexible currencies thus appeared to have lightened the yoke of dollar imperialism.

"Ireland was under the yoke of the British, so this could have been their sympathy".