Guru Hargobind started to militarise Sikhs so that they would be able to resist any oppression.
As often happens among the oppressed, the charitable organizations have bought in on their own oppression.
The oppression plays out at many levels, none more important than with regard to compensation.
Ben Ali's repressive regime was known for its harsh oppression of all forms of Islamists.
Basically, the Iraqis before the war were promised freedom from the oppression of Saddam Hussein.
They induce fear, and help to create a climate in which corruption and oppression thrive.
We have heard their stories of rape and oppression, of robbery and looting and brutality.
Our fight has been against oppression, ignorance, unfairness, backwardness and all sorts of oppression and constraints.
Subjected to centuries of oppression and forced ghettoization they developed coping strategies that performed adequately.
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But in Banda Aceh, where military oppression was less severe, confusion creeps back in.
Ronald Reagan hated the Soviet occupation of the Warsaw Pact countries really, hated the oppression and violence.
Venezuela is suffering from one of the worst cases of oppression in its modern history.
The power plays made no sense to Baha'is and seemed like oppression for oppression's sake.
The Arab Spring presented an opportunity to help move millions of people from oppression to freedom.
Egyptian Copts (Christians) have long complained about discrimination and outright oppression under former President Hosni Mubarak.
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What Jesus abhorred was violence or any other evil in the service of exploitation and oppression.
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As for the Chechens, their misery and oppression seem set to continue, or perhaps even worsen.
We must harness the outrage of our own memories to stamp out oppression wherever it exists.
Freedom from tyranny, freedom from oppression and freedom from fear are essential for real peace.
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The characters blame political oppression in the Arab world on dictatorships and conservative movements.
Certainly, we are no less opposed to the oppression of women than leftist women are.
That spares Miss Megawati from having to work openly with the symbol of past oppression.
It said May Day was a time to "stand up for workers' rights and resist oppression".
More preposterous: that Venezuelans put up with this oppression rather than fight for their right to light.
For decades, millions of men and women in the region have been trapped in oppression and hopelessness.
Such oppression against the non-white population intensified into violence, landing young protesters like Nelson Mandela in jail.
As a result, we find exactly oppression of the public in some local or even state jurisdictions.
They saw it as ending years of oppression at the hands of the ruthless U.S.-backed Shah regime.
People fed up with oppression and inequality defied the violence of the police of a threatened regime.
They say that black and brown people share a common oppression, that their divisions only embolden the white capitalistic powers.
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