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How to use oppresses in a sentence

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But a V-shaped column crowds the central area, and the heavy structure oppresses the space.
Black and white people have to unite against the system that oppresses the working class.
So when I rail against the corporate capitalist system that oppresses workers, I'm speaking from my own experience.
There is no question that increased fundamentalism oppresses women more than it does men.
Are we to betray them by selling weapons to the regime that oppresses them?
Any economic, social, political or cultural structure which opposes or oppresses and prevents change towards justice is sinful.
The proletariat must demand the right of political secession for the colonies and for the nations that 'its own' nation oppresses.
We condemn Saddam Hussein unreservedly for his regime which oppresses minorities and offends democracy in Iraq.
What we are seeing in this case is how an undemocratic system imprisons, persecutes and oppresses democrats.
How many times have we stood here impotently railing against the way in which Mugabe oppresses his people?
Far from protecting women, criminalization victimizes, oppresses and endangers them.
Lacordaire was right when he said: 'Between the strong and the weak, it is law that liberates and liberty that oppresses.
Some have condemned it as a centralizing device that oppresses minorities, Native peoples and underdeveloped regions.
As Lacordaire said in the 1830s: between the strong and the weak, it is liberty that oppresses and the law that sets free.
Who oppresses the working-class neighborhoods and suburbs with an army of police?
The precondition for women's emancipation is the revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist order, which exploits women as workers and oppresses them as household drudges.
All we have to do is kill the mad-dog Nicaraguan who oppresses our people, calling himself a soldier.
The MKO is a degenerate organisation, which is tantamount to a religious sect and which severely oppresses its own members, including within the camp.
The intense homophobia that characterizes most homosocial formations in our society are products of the same system that oppresses women.
They have internalised the values of the system that oppresses them.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I have thought that, like Judith, you were chosen to destroy the Holofernes who oppresses us.
The very possession of the letter, in the present excited state of my nerves, oppresses and revolts me.
But he is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him.
The workday aspect of the world is always with us and oppresses us.
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