• He would manipulate the poor people into thinking that they are oppressed by the rich.

    FORBES: Q and A: Thaksin Sits Down With

  • Haiti's people lived under sanctions, isolated and oppressed by a succession of generals, dictators and bad rulers.

    ECONOMIST: Rebuilding Haiti

  • "There's kind of a sense of hopelessness, of being literally almost physically oppressed by your surroundings, " she said.

    WSJ: Neighborhoods Confer Health, but Not Wealth

  • "We are tired of being oppressed by military, " says 26-year-old activist Sarbini.

    CNN: Walking on a Tightrope

  • Add the bitterness between those who felt oppressed by Soviet-imposed communist rule and those who chose collaboration, and a row one day was inevitable.

    ECONOMIST: Hungary

  • While recognising the concept of a struggling Muslim community or umma that is oppressed by the generic foes of Islam, he finds such simplistic ideas inadequate.

    ECONOMIST: The Middle East

  • The premise of the game, if you recall, is a world in which the orcs and goblins and other green-skinned folks are viciously oppressed by the humans.

    FORBES: 'Of Orcs And Men' Shows Off Witty Goblin Banter In 'Buddy Trailer'

  • He made us believe in Captain Hook and Tinkerbell, and so we can believe that women oppressed by Victorian strictures could find the spirit to escape their gilded birdcages of propriety.

    WSJ: Review: 2 J.M. Barrie comedies smart, breezy

  • It also means helping those oppressed by our enemies, to assist them in undermining and, if possible, in bringing down their government a popular aspiration lately confirmed anew by a spate of tumultuous demonstrations across Iran.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Burns fiddles while Tehran arms

  • While it is a great honor to serve, returning to a place where my mom, the rest of my family, and so many other Czechs and Slovaks were oppressed by the Nazis and the Communists, was not without its challenges.

    WHITEHOUSE: Letter from Prague: Every Day a Miracle

  • You know, as anxious as we all are about our prospective (nay, inevitable) collective future as meatbags oppressed by some human-created supreme artificial intelligence, at least Isaac Asimov's (and to a lesser extent, Isaac Hayesimov's) Three Laws helped us sleep at night.

    ENGADGET: Ugobe defines its own Three Laws, dooms us all to future of robot oppression

  • On the good side, it is in order to warn others of what's in it, or to better understand what distinguishes it from the Shari'a, or to help protect Muslims from being oppressed by it, or to protect Muslims' rights under the Shari'a.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • And so the peacefulness, the serenity that we feel away from the Internet, and which all the Better-Nevers rightly testify to, has less to do with being no longer harried by others than with being less oppressed by the force of your own inner life.

    NEWYORKER: The Information

  • But every society has a poor storm that wretches suffer in, and the attitude is always the same: either that the wretches, already dehumanized by their suffering, deserve no pity or that the oppressed, overwhelmed by injustice, will have to wait for a better world.

    NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

  • This is particularly true when - as is the case with Islamophobia - the charge is leveled on behalf of people who were oppressed in the past by Westerners.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Age of Dissimulation

  • By calling on the dramatic tactic of violent protest that was being used by other oppressed groups, the events at the Stonewall implied that homosexuals had as much reason to be disaffected as they.

    FORBES: What Was Obama Talking About When He Cited The Historical References Of 'Seneca Falls And Selma And Stonewall'?

  • " What's happening now "reveals not an attempt to express oneself Islamically, so to speak, but to express oneself in an act that draws attention and sympathy and shows the outrage experienced by the oppressed Arab population.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The few who have, in polite petitions or the odd display of anger, particularly by members of the oppressed Shia minority who number around 10%, have usually been coerced or co-opted by royal largesse into silence.

    ECONOMIST: Saudi Arabia

  • Would the dismemberment of Iraq create a vacuum that would be filled by mullah-oppressed Iran?

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • In that time, the generals have succeeded in turning a resource-rich land of 45m people, once considered to have one of the most promising economies in Asia, into an oppressed, poor nation widely shunned by the outside world.

    ECONOMIST: Help needed

  • Ixil Mayas, she said, can teach other oppressed groups around the world to stand by their rights and not to rest until tyrants are punished by law.

    NPR: Prison For Ex-Dictator Soothes Guatemala

  • It, surprisingly, appreciates what the UN calls the "positive" elements of slum life, shaped by a population characterized not as oppressed and helpless but as resourceful and creative.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Every faith community can take action as well, by educating their congregations, by joining in coalitions that are bound by a love of God and a concern for the oppressed.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks to the United Nations General Assembly | The White House

  • Members of the tiny Christian minority -- just 1 percent of the population -- celebrated Easter as thousands of Shiite Muslims made the pilgrimage to the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, banned by Saddam's regime, which was largely secular and oppressed the nation's Shiite majority while favoring Sunni Muslims.

    CNN: U.S. administrative chief to arrive on Monday

  • "When I am playing in an ensemble that has people who are ostensibly my enemy, I am not thinking about how they have oppressed my people or how there is all this injustice -- all this falls by the wayside, " Bulos tells CNN.

    CNN: The orchestra playing for peace

  • However, by deposing a dangerous tyranny it not only fulfils its duty to protect its citizens but also liberates the oppressed.

    ECONOMIST: Hollow victory?

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