form of oppression
collocation in Englishmeaningsofformandoppression
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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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 offormandoppressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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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 anotherformofoppression.
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We begin with some remarks about the use of sound, then sketch a preliminary taxonomy of music functioning in various ways and to different degrees as aformofoppression.
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It is a far more systematicformofoppressionthan is to be seen in normal war situations.
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How can we guarantee that it will not get into the wrong hands and become aformofoppression?
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We have sat for three centuries under the most terribleformofoppressionever invented by man.
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It has been maintained by every conceivableformofoppression, intimidation and discrimination.
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Anyformofoppression, discrimination or stereotyping must be combated, and the opportunity of everyone to make free choices promoted.
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It means sooner or later someformofoppressionof the people who come up against those powers.
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However, this resolution smacks of an ideology that wants to forcefully combat one objectionableformofoppressionby introducing another undesirable form of dictatorship or collective thinking.
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They are also aformofoppression.
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In their view, freedom without equality gives more freedom to those at a higher social status, and equality without freedom is aformofoppression.
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In terms of class struggle, this could be seen as aformofoppressionof the proletariat by the bourgeoisie.
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To announce that one idea is the highest guiding principle, and others are oppressive and wrong, potentially gives rise to other forms of oppression.
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Challenging these forms of oppression is extremely important : people are also bodies.
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Self-loathing is a terribleformofoppression.
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It is rarely argued that efforts to tackle other forms of oppression such as sexism or racism should be similarly constrained.
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Most anarchists would argue that freedom without equality simply gives more freedom to those who are supposedly superior and that equality without freedom is aformofoppression.
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They may also be perceived as a tool of some otherformofoppressionor injustice, such as the maintenance of an authoritarian regime or territorial expansion.
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They are free from exploitation and all other forms of oppression.
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