political oppression
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpoliticalandoppression
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political
adjective
uk/pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/us/pəˈlɪt̬.ə.kəl/
relating ...
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oppression
noun[U]
uk/əˈpreʃ.ən/us/əˈpreʃ.ən/
a situation in which people are governed in an unfair and cruel way and prevented from having opportunities ...
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(Definition ofpoliticalandoppressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But they were also consistent with a general ambition to reduce the hazards ofpoliticaloppression, as he at least understood this.
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We saw no evidence that psychiatry was being misused forpoliticaloppression, but if there had been any, we would not have been shown it.
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Politicaloppressionitself is also a source of alienation, mistrust, and selfcontempt that corrodes domestic relationships, estranges parents from their children, and undermines solidarity within communities.
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There are at least 25 million of these environmental refugees-a total to be compared with 23 million traditional refugees, viz. people fleeingpoliticaloppression, religious persecution and ethnic strife.
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We know that in the past the greatest cruelties of mankind have been conducted owing to religious intolerance andpoliticaloppression.
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It is rarely easy to draw a sensible line between economic oppression andpoliticaloppression.
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Here the poisons of racial hatred,politicaloppressionand religious intolerance are as powerful and as murderous as anywhere in the world.
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What they have in common is not poverty or lack of opportunity but rather civil violence andpoliticaloppression.
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Those indigenous people have retained their dignity despite more than four centuries of economic andpoliticaloppression.
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There must be safeguards againstpoliticaloppressionor victimisation.
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It used to be part of our law that anybody who was a refugee frompoliticaloppressioncould enter these islands as a right.
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Indeed, there have been other cases of men who have been subject topoliticaloppressionwho have come here and have obtained political asylum.
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Is it not a disgrace that this country routinely imprisons nearly 1,000 people for doing nothing more than seek asylum, having fled frompoliticaloppression?
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Instead, we see a complete lack of press freedom and ongoingpoliticaloppression.
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If those people could show that they were suffering frompoliticaloppression, then they would have the right to freedom here.
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The need for democracy in countries with a long record ofpoliticaloppressionshould not become the undoing of future democratic process.
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Unfortunately this is just one aspect of the ethnic andpoliticaloppressionwhich has deprived most of this country's people of their basic rights.
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This has put people's lives at risk, for example where someone is forced to flee from their home country on account ofpoliticaloppression.
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I am not a fugitive from justice but a fugitive frompoliticaloppression.
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