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Example sentences for: yoke

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He was enthusiastic--too enthusiastic, he realizes now--to bring glorious Marxism to his suffering people, to free Cambodia from the yoke of Vietnamese invaders, to abolish the twin evils of Western materialism and class privilege.
Under the yoke of another foreign power, and with trade at an all time low, the Golden Age was truly dead.
The Spanish immediately began subjugating the Arawak population, many of whom died under the yoke of oppression and of diseases carried by the Europeans.
Later an acre was a strip of open field, large enough to be ploughed by a yoke of oxen in one day.
And as in Burma, the Philippines, and Indonesia, Japan appealed to Malay nationalism to throw off the Western imperialist yoke in a movement of Asian solidarity — an “Asia for the Asians” spearheaded by Japan’s Imperial Army.