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Example sentences for: oppression

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Excessive masculinity is seen by some as adaptive behavior in situations where Chicano men feel racial oppression and discrimination.
"As the century's greatest thinker, as an immigrant who fled from oppression to freedom, as a political idealist, he best embodies" the century, says Time .
She doesn't succumb to the simple-minded idea that male honor inevitably requires female oppression.
She knows nothing of this consciously but, in dozens of such gestures, McTeer reveals the unconscious conflation of Nora's conflicts--the way her wildly unfocused energy is the consequence of her inner turmoil, of both social oppression and emotional repression.
On the positive side: It's a compelling document "of a life marked by high seriousness, good conscience and an utter refusal to submit to evil and oppression" (Jonathan Groner, the Washington Post Book World ), and upon reading it you "become persuaded that something about his combination of seeming innocence and moral honesty has the power to move if not mountains then those who have the most power" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). But complaints against the book are uniform: 1) This volume "feels anti-climactic" (Duane Davis, Denver Rocky Mountain News ) when compared with his first because it lacks the kind of compelling events that shaped his early life.