oppress
Example Sentences
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The video evidence shows Lemon calmly interviewing the pastor, the very person the federal government’s indictment claims he tried to “oppress and intimidate.”
From Salon
“We are the grandchildren of the protesters. We are the grandchildren of the oppressed,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
Harbored at different times by Yemen, Syria, East Germany and communist Hungary, this self-appointed tribune of the oppressed was finally captured in Sudan in 1994, then convicted in France of multiple murders.
“Yes, the queer community has villains, we have people who are seeking to oppress us,” Rice says in the film.
From Los Angeles Times
Occasionally undone by melodramatic tendencies, “All That’s Left of You” catalogs the emotional toll that occupation visits on the oppressed.
From Los Angeles Times
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