Definition: 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.
Use 'oppression' in a sentence:
1. His abode at the Heights was an oppression past explaining.
2. If only I could recreate the menacing atmosphere of oppression. but how?
3. The great writer inspired the people to resist oppression with his works.
4. There existed class exploitation and racial oppression.
5. No nation, no group, no individual should stay buried in the rubble of oppression.
6. His works contain Widowers' House, Mrs. Warren's Profession, a play about the economic oppression of women.
7. The oppression of the people by the nobles caused the war.
8. The Burmese people, however, understand clearly China's role in their continued oppression.
9. The National Convention has promised armed support to any people who wish to rise against armed oppression.
10. They had been suffering from political and religious oppression.
11. Oppression (Mastery and Attachment).
12. To the mother, it's good parenting, but to her son, it's oppression.
13. Religious and extreme current of thought and religion oppression;
14. And bring an end to oppression forever.
15. Chapter two illustrates the multiple oppressions African Americans suffered under the slavery.
16. Our patience and our solidarity did not make us forget the oppression.
17. It dealt with topics such as problems facing society, oppression of the lower classes, etc.
18. Its key mission is to fight against foreign oppression and struggle for national independence.
19. Every human being has the right to freedom from oppression.
20. At present, there is no effective drugs can remove the oppression.
21. The aim is to get rid of idea oppression for free exchange.
22. The Chinese side stated: Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance.
23. Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
24. On the Problem of Oppression on the Market Entrance of Private Banks.
25. Avoid eye and head of the arm, the long-term oppression, protect nerve body health.
26. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
27. He hated the oppression of little people which he saw everywhere,
28. There are still such problems as financial inefficiency and financial oppressions.
29. He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression;
30. Where there is oppression ( aggression), there is resistance.
31. Prejudice and oppression now occurs with impunity.
32. An Investigation on Sense of oppression among Students of Suzhou University.
33. Redeem me from the oppression of men, that I may obey your precepts.
34. The political oppression played the main role among the many people who committed suicide.
35. Nothing but contempt is due to those people who ask us to submit to unmerited oppression.
36. By the second or third generation, however, memories of oppression grow dimmer.
37. We can acknowledge that oppression will always be with us, and still strive for justice.
38. The media focus solely on poverty and the cycle of oppression.
39. Oppression usually fails.
40. Human Nature from Oppression, Distortion, Decay to Reversion.
41. "This is to mark that I lived in terror under oppression," read one message.
42. But after 30 years of oppression, journalists are afraid of their own shadows.
43. By writing to God, she detected her sufferings and oppression.
44. The main cause of women's and children's oppression is patriarchy.
45. Later, out of fear of the oppression of this love, I finally left school.
46. Moreover this kind of oppression manner, how for under person's enough trust and support?
47. Forth, the oppression of teaching method;
48. Natalie agreed that discontinuing the moon was an act of oppression.
49. The function of the state is to exploitation and oppression upon the individual.
50. Overcoming oppression and abject poverty and terrible disease is hard.
51. It laid the foundation to pressure the world to denounce oppression in Iran.
52. Most of the countries have suffered far more severe symptoms, from Libya's civil war to the vicious oppression seen in Syria and Yemen.
53. Where there is oppression there is resistance.
54. Where there is oppression, there is resistance.
55. Years of oppression had ground the people down.
56. Obviously, poverty and racism and oppression can also corrupt one's spirit and turn the person into someone who is bitter and angry, filled with rage.
