oppressing

Example Sentences

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You can't look at me as someone who's oppressing me and then ask me, "But how do we make you better?"

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2024

"You can't recruit people from the same group you are oppressing on a day-to-day basis," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2023

She said she would do everything within the EU framework to reach the point of imposing sanctions against those responsible for oppressing women in Iran.

From Reuters • Sep. 29, 2022

She asked participants to realize that an Afghanistan that is oppressing more than half its population cannot be a reliable partner in the world.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021

This priest, Bartolomé de las Casas, suggested using imported African laborers instead of oppressing the native people.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis