Sentences with phrase «defending against oppression»

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In fact, they are the ones ascribing to an ideology — merely the most recent of many in human history — that attempts to rationalize discrimination and oppression against some of us based on subjective criteria, this time with victims the least able to defend themselves.

And a republican form of government makes it less likely that factional interests — that is, those groups that defend substantively wrongful and improper public policies — will be able to exercise their plans of oppression against the legitimate rights or interests of the community in general and the individual in particular.

Unfortunately, as with most power plays, the word is here being used by the powerful (a man) against the traditionally marginalized (a woman), defending a «doctrine» that perpetuates patriarchal oppression.

Our commercial litigation lawyers successfully defended the majority shareholders of a major New Jersey company against claims of minority shareholder «oppression,» as a result of a 13 - week non-jury trial.