6 sentences with “oppression”

In turn, many Germans dreamed of a united Germany that could escape the oppressive influence of censorship and oppression.

In response, from the mid-1960s onwards, the second-wave feminist movement emerged to combat precisely these forms of legal and cultural oppression and discrimination.

The Democratic-Republicans opposed the Federalists' idea that only the well-born and well-educated could oversee the republic; they saw it as a path to oppression by an aristocracy.

The Roman Empire was as rich, powerful and glorious as any in history up to that time, but it also represented oppression and imperialism for slaves, poor commoners and conquered peoples.

Was Jesus the Messiah? In Jewish doctrine, the messiah was to be a figure who would liberate the Jews from oppression and fulfil the covenant between the Jews and God, delivering the Promised Land for all eternity.

A new feminist movement emerged to defend not only women's rights under the law, but also the idea that the objectification and oppression of women was unjust, destructive and unacceptable in supposedly democratic societies.