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Oppresses
Oppresses meaning
plural of oppress
Example sentences (11)
Should they be responsible for shaping our generation’s youth and for trying to fit a standard that oppresses most women?
And it persecutes and oppresses its own people, which we’ve seen through the murder of Iranian women and girls, as well as any other dissidents within Iran.
I've always confronted dogma that oppresses people and limits freedom of expression.
The structural workings of the neoliberal, monetarist capitalism that oppresses such a formidable swatch of American society keep expanding the capital of the 1% exponentially, irrespective of its skin color.
But as an organizer who has worked in multiracial community my entire adult life, I know that targeting Jews is part of a larger project that oppresses and kills us—especially Black, Brown, immigrant and queer communities—around the world.
But when we working people are organized, use our collective power, and have the courage and the will to stand together despite attempts to intimidate and silence us, we can win real victories against the capitalist system that exploits and oppresses us.
Every church and religion must fight corruption because corruption oppresses the poor and destroy justice and fairness”, he said.
As a child of the Jewish people who, by the grace of God, for the past eleven years has also been a child of the Catholic Church, I dare to speak to the Father of Christianity about that which oppresses millions of Germans.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations?
Fretheim, p.40 At the end, however, he follows other gods and oppresses Israel.
We recognize that we live in a capitalist system that favors a select few and oppresses the majority.