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If a law to secure collective title were passed and widely applied, she contended, it would constitute an act of oppression.
He has known so much oppression that he either accepts the status quo without question or else he breaks forth in revolutionary activities.
Focusing on social conflict with men rather than intrapsychic contradictions in women, they deal with social oppression, as it were, rather than psychic repression.
They would be more sensitive to the vagaries of oppression in the work regime and social discipline of their holdings, and could calibrate appropriate responses.
Of late, however, the biopolitical project has turned ' pernicious ' and has become a tool of oppression.
At any rate, they established neither a threshold of oppression nor a procedure to oust a derelict leader.
Coherence is lost by calling upon the coercive power of the state to protect against verbal oppression, thereby subordinating and marginalizing some members of society.
Why should the theoretical confusion of 'being free' with 'feeling free' carry with it the possibility of justifying oppression?
Political factionalism and the oppression of the poor by moneyleaders, for example, absorbed at least as much of his attention.
Nevertheless, the detested forms of human oppression are not enough, so to speak.
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oppression

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class oppression
This was to lose its historical character as an instrument of classoppression isolated from the people.
form of oppression
Given the often terrifyingly eventful lives that our participants had led, the daily routines of education and employment could seem at best unexciting and at worst another formofoppression.
instrument of oppression
The colonial army was an instrumentofoppression, but it also kept peace and seemed to have its place in the new order of things.
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