Oppress in a sentence as a verb

It is not okay to lean on the class of people you oppress to solve your system or your discomfort with it.".

Regulations are only there because governments hate you and want to oppress you!

Forcing groups to stick to their own language sounds like a more useful tool to oppress them than giving them equal language footing.

Give me your energetic, your rich, Your striding elite yearning to oppress, The vaunted gild of your desolate shore.

> Please be sensitive to _my_ culture too.> Google "management by perkele".> Do you really want to oppress a minority?

Not to mention the small matter that it enables corrupt government officials to harass and oppress them.

He claims the government determined that *** should be Schedule I to oppress the masses and I am the one who is supposed to supply evidence?

The United States sends them billions of dollars worth of arms, surveillance tech and other tools to oppress the Saudi populace.

Laws used to frustrate, oppress, or even enslave a citizenry are always written under the guise of offering 'options for protection'.

Not one janitor, clerk attendant and marine soldier that worked on the embassy took part in any oppression of the Iranian people.

Politically unpopular groups will be afraid to communicate if their devices are compelled to spy on them and corrupt government officials can use that to harass and oppress them.

-----Rand observed that regulations are created by the financially and politically powerful to restrain and oppress the individuals trying to improve their lot in life and change the world.

When you were a child, would any of you have believed that one day in the early 21st century, you would wake up in a world where your own government spies on each and every single citizen, plus whoever is connected to them in another country, where they send agents to newspapers to oppress the freedom of the press?I mean, isn't this almost surreal?

This is because we want our kids to be happy and we come up with cookie-cutter solutions for happiness: "have a high-paying job" supplants "not have to have headaches about money", "be important", "be powerful" and "be famous" supplant "be harder to oppress by society or more powerful people".To me, that seems to be a more fundamental problem than the problem of education and one a lot harder to solve.

"I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who, on pretence of managing the public, only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out; first, that they may, without danger, preserve all that they have so ill-acquired, and then, that they may engage the poor to toil and labour for them at as low rates as possible, and oppress them as much as they please; and if they can but prevail to get these contrivances established by the show of public authority, which is considered as the representative of the whole people, then they are accounted laws.

Oppress definitions

verb

come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"

See also: suppress crush

verb

cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"

See also: persecute