Examples of 'oppression' in a sentence

Meaning of "oppression"

oppression (noun) - the state of being subject to unjust treatment or control, often by a group or authority. This term is typically used in discussions about social issues or human rights
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  • The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
  • The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
  • A feeling of being oppressed.

How to use "oppression" in a sentence

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Evidence of actual oppression or discrimination is not a criterion.
We must all act in the face of oppression.
Too great oppression for a tender thing.
We are building the greatest weapon for oppression.
Oppression and military aggression must be stopped.
Injustice and oppression from the earth.
Oppression became part of their daily lives.
Neither time nor oppression have extinguished it.
Oppression wore a party hat that day.
The days of our oppression are coming to an end.
Oppression does not last for too long.
One day the oppression will end.
The oppression and censorship continues online.
Three hundred years of oppression and it survives.
Our oppression goes back to the very origins.

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They face severe oppression in this country.
A culture can thus be a force of liberation or oppression.
An avocado oppression would be great right now.
Her and my dad really big on oppression.
Too much oppression will prompt a revolt.
I just started my course on global female oppression.
Tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter.
Living proof of the devastating power of oppression.
Ages of oppression have rolled over them.
It opposes discrimination or oppression against any people.
Southern oppression and northern caste were denounced.
I have spent my entire life fighting oppression.
Discrimination and oppression of minorities shall be opposed.
Capitalism all na the same oppression dey.
The forms of oppression are not the same.
We came to this country to escape his oppression.
In breathing from oppression of heaven do not be careless.
To rid the world of tyranny and oppression.
To many the idea of oppression by tyranny was shameful.
A determination that there would be no hierarchy of oppression.
And truth to oppression has paid a price.
Gender and class are different forms of oppression.
The last bastion of oppression is you doing what we do.
Millions suffer from hunger and oppression.
Cruelty and oppression ended here forever.
Israel was created to be a land free from oppression.
For whom oppression and cowardice were virtues.
Quite frankly a hierarchy of oppression has been created.
Racial oppression was something common at that time.
Racism is the systemic oppression of people of color.
The oppression had gone on long enough.
If you see the oppression of the poor.
You who bear the brunt of oppression.
Where there was oppression or tyranny or fascism or government.
There was definitely a feeling of oppression in the house.

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