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Sentence count:159+2Posted:2016-12-27Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: oppressivenesssubjugationSimilar words: suppressioncompressionimpressiondepressionexpressionoppressoraggressioncongressionalMeaning: [ə'preʃn]  n. 1. the act of subjugating by cruelty 2. the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: "after years of oppression they finally revolted" 3. a feeling of being oppressed. 
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(31) The people have the spirit to overthrow oppression, but their imagination can't yet cope with overturning their stifling bureaucracy.
(32) It made me reappraise my attitudes to oppression and the politics of domination and subordination.
(33) It will either mask the conflict and thereby contribute to alienation and oppression, or it will become a vehicle of protest.
(34) It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms.
(35) Marxist feminism is rather more complicated in that it sees the oppression of women as inextricably linked to the class system.
(36) The true language of sisterhood does not speak of the pain of childbirth or the indignities of male oppression.
(37) Socialism cannot exist without a change in consciousness resulting in a new fraternal attitude toward humanity, both at an individual level, within the societies where socialism is being built or has been built, and on a world scale, with regard to all peoples suffering from imperialist oppressionChe Guevara 
(38) On other occasions they came independently, fleeing from oppression to the fabled free lands beyond the Urals.
(39) Two hundred years ago our forefathers revolted against oppression and formed a new nation.
(40) However, it is a small price to pay for the end of oppression and slavery.
(41) What matters are the structures of power, the institutions and the social practices that produce racial oppression and discriminatory outcomes.
(42) Britain and the United States have been leading a global campaign against the junta's oppression of the country's 46m people.
(43) Or an end to racial oppression? Creative solutions to our ecological problems?
(44) Beneath this man-made mechanism of oppression are the people, literally distanced from their surroundings by Kahlo's use of photo-collage.
(45) The militancy of sectarian party orthodoxy is fused with the militancy of rebellion against personal oppression.
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(46) The essential condition for realizing this potential is the overthrow of all forms of oppression.
(47) He maintained that by its very nature, capitalism involves the exploitation and oppression of the worker.
(48) They scoff, and speak with malice; in their arrogance they threaten oppression.
(49) Marxist writers vary quite substantially in their interpretations of the reason for women's oppression.
(50) How to please everybody remains a central motif in many women's lives and the source of quite powerful feelings of oppression.
(51) Caryl Churchill's play sets individual achievement against all women's struggle against oppression.
(52) On the contrary, their recollection is embittered by the cruelty, exploitation and official oppression which they recall.
(53) They and the opposition are up against a tradition of oppression that goes back to Tamerlane.
(54) The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me? George Orwell 
(55) Many other Forest wardens were accused of peculation, oppression or neglect.
(56) We flush the runaways from the swamps of poverty and oppression and dispose of them as the enemies of our society.
(57) My first political awareness of oppression was when I was discharged from the nursing corps of the army over lesbianism.
(58) But Wilkes said they can offer something unique to their practice because of their direct experience of oppression.
(59) But under socialism all oppression would have been ended: there would then be no need for national independence.
(60) When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken. Che Guevara 
More similar words: suppressioncompressionimpressiondepressionexpressionoppressoraggressioncongressionaltransgressionsuppresssessionimpressiverecessionsecessionconfessionprofessionconcessioninexpressibleprofessionalpressmissionpassionimpressexpresscompresspress forregressiveaggressiveemissionprogressive
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