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Example sentences for: oppression

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Although she is the preeminent representation of womanhood, she has become an icon for women’s subjugation and oppression.
However, even leaving aside what are, in all three of those examples, to me very valid questions of interpretation (I think--I haven't seen Dogma ), given that the resources of political activism on the behalf of special interests are necessarily limited, I would prefer to put my dollar and my anxiety down on the side of protecting actual, real live human beings suffering actual, real live oppression, or the threat thereof.
Laws against interracial marriage--and the taboos against black-white sex that they codify--have been the central weapon in the oppression of African-Americans since the dawn of slavery.
Stambolic sent Milosevic as his proxy to a party meeting in Kosovo, where Serbs were grouching about their oppression by the Albanian majority.
Amsterdammers fight for everyone’s rights against oppression, or the right of David to stand against the faceless Goliath of bureaucracy.