Collocations withoppression

These are words often used in combination withoppression.

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class oppression
This was to lose its historical character as an instrument of class oppression isolated from the people.
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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 form of oppression.
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instrument of oppression
The colonial army was an instrument of oppression, but it also kept peace and seemed to have its place in the new order of things.
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political oppression
But they were also consistent with a general ambition to reduce the hazards of political oppression, as he at least understood this.
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racial oppression
This is a reasonable conclusion: since the 1960s, scholars have written extensively with the specific objective to raise awareness of this racial oppression.
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victims of oppression
It was the idea that the victims of oppression are often held responsible, by their oppressors, for their own afflictions.
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