oppression
Example Sentences
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"It Was Just an Accident," by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, was filmed in secret and deals with a dilemma that victims of oppression sometimes face: should they take revenge or forgive those who imprisoned them?
From Barron's
“The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice,” he warned.
From Salon
The minority, around two million of Syria's 20 million people, suffered decades of oppression under the Assad family's rule.
From Barron's
The KLA emerged in the 1990s in response to growing oppression of the ethnic Albanian population in Kosovo, then a Serbian province.
From Barron's
Implicit in the articles is the sense that there may be a kernel of something good in a society that enables individuals to rise above oppression.
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