oppression Betydning & definition

Eksempler på oppression

• The enemy's oppressions, his depredations, his cruelties and his crimes have been done on other soil than ours.

• Two wrongs never make a right but create new oppressions and divisions in society.

• Their revolt was basically against the oppressions of the feudal controls on the labour market.

• There—in the camps of capitalism—national enmity and inequality, colonial slavery and chauvinism, national oppressions and pograms, imperialistic brutalities and wars.

• Minor oppressions are inclined to be overlooked.

• If a law to secure collective title were passed and widely applied, she contended, it would constitute an act of oppression.

• He has known so much oppression that he either accepts the status quo without question or else he breaks forth in revolutionary activities.

• Focusing on social conflict with men rather than intrapsychic contradictions in women, they deal with social oppression, as it were, rather than psychic repression.