Oppressed used in a sentence

Oppressed in a sentence as an adjective

It would be a mistake to think of these plaintiffs as an oppressed set of victims.

The problem isn't me feeling oppressed, it's other people feeling oppressed....

If you're feeling oppressed and excluded by a command name, your real problems lie elsewhere.

I was hoping technological progress in this area would be oppressed.

" Napoleon"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Robin Hood is actually all about robbing from corrupt oppressors and protecting the oppressed.

He has a knee-jerk reaction whenever an alleged case of "sexism" comes up - he is inclined to take the side of the "oppressed" group and facts be damned.

"If the oppressor uses violence, the oppressed have no alternative but to respond violently.

We took the side of the oppressed: blacks, women, gays, the poor and homeless, the environment, and most of all, we protested an illegal and immoral war.

But it is also easy to forget that this is a society inhabited by flesh and blood humans, not ruthless robots and their abstract oppressed victims.

I don't understand how that makes any sense -- because it sounds like they're just twisting the practical problem in their favor, which doesn't relay the underlying message of letting people live their lives, without being oppressed or told what to do.

Does that make sense?This situation is only exacerbated when you bring in gender dynamics: men and women are equal, yes, but women are the ones who've been oppressed for centuries and are struggling up the ***** to reach equality.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

Making any of the world's poorest countries richer in general, or making any of the world's most oppressed countries freer in general, is a problem for which some example solutions exist, just as traveling to other planets has some precedent in the manned moon missions and in robot space probes, but I suggest it is actually a much tougher and more interesting problem, a problem more worthy of a gnarly man willing to risk his life.