"Oppressive power" refers to a situation where a person or group has excessive control and authority over others, using it in a cruel and unfair way to limit their freedom and rights.
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Sentences with «oppressive power»
- It's a situation where oppressive power always thrives. (relevantmagazine.com)
- Through the exploration of oppressive power dynamics, we are invited to examine our own complex relationships to those systems. (anti-utopias.com)
- In the view from the left, Israel, which has won too many wars, has become the Goliath oppressing the Palestinian David, and, in addition, bears the onus of being backed by the necessarily oppressive power of the United States. (firstthings.com)
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