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Example sentences for: oppression

How can you use “oppression” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Liberty is born in the state’s assertion of responsibility to oversee and prevent relationships of oppression.
To Arendt, the elimination of the public-private distinction is what distinguishes 20 th century totalitarianism from earlier and lesser forms of oppression.
He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since "the walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets."
By the same token, Jack Maggs ' triumphal march burnishes the literary moment to which its author lays proud claim, restoring the 19 th -century English novel, that much-maligned instrument of colonial oppression, to a well-deserved place in the sun.
Insurrection was in the air, met by oppression and resulting in ever more sustained resistance.