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oppressing

Meaning

of Oppress

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us. Jef Raskin

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament! Vladimir Lenin

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. James K. Polk

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. Assata Shakur

The Quran also wants to emphasize that the right of the weak to resist and confront the strong who are oppressing them is part of the natural laws that have been laid down to make humans feel secure in life and in their religious beliefs. Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

It is outrageous that [the ESB] is oppressing a powerless citizen in this way. Joe Higgins

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