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How to use oppressing in a sentence

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The American courts for criminal procedure have stuck to a strong tradition of oppressing the fruits of the poisonous trees.
This still existed under the Popular Unity government and continued oppressing the poor.
It is tempting for trendy writers to portray him as a tool of rich imperialists oppressing the poor convicts.
Using large puppets on stilts, the performers depicted two tyrants oppressing several people.
Without local stooges to stand between them and the people, they'll have to do all the oppressing themselves.
We could not let this continue, the extremists oppressing the people while Bashar continues to do his own oppression.
On the other hand, the opposition portrays the trials as proof of an anti-Islamic government oppressing the pious.
They are a constant source of criminality, oppressing and enslaving people, endangering the life and limb even of children.
What I do not understand is this insistence on oppressing minors or young offenders.
It's also true that they have been oppressing their own people and conducting a campaign of abuse against women that justifies international intervention.
It's about a brutal dictator who's oppressing his own people.
Yet, the beams prove futile in relieving the oppressing darkness.
What matters for them is less the oppression itself than the nature of the entity doing the oppressing.
And this will does not weigh down on us, oppressing us and taking away our freedom.
In language and culture patterns the Yellowknife were almost identical to the Chipewyan, who were given to robbing and oppressing them.
People want to demonstrate but the government is oppressing their demonstrations.
I am quite convinced, they will refuse to remain silent, and they will not permit the CPV continue oppressing the people any longer.
Every place contains the very dangers from which it promises protection, nurtures and shelters while also restricting and oppressing.
There are too many examples of humans killing or oppressing other humans in the name of God.
But Russia kept getting bigger, mostly by killing, oppressing, and annoying Russians.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The organs of gentilism changed from servants of the public will to independent organs of rule oppressing their own people.
What is the use of possessing strength if we exercise it in oppressing others?
Use not your power or liberty to the robbing, or oppressing, or injury of any.
Possibly, he feared that by oppressing them he might drive them to acts of desperation.
I began to think her innocent, and lost some of the gloom which had been oppressing me.
Not long, ye would think, with men like Ardshiel in exile and men like the Red Fox sitting birling the wine and oppressing the poor at home.
Hitherto, every form of society has been based, as we have already seen, on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
A heavy sense of the unkindness of fate was oppressing Mr. Goble.
It had oppressed him before, and now again it was oppressing him.
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