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How to use oppressor in a sentence

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I found myself strangely, nay, irresistibly attracted to this shocking and revolting oppressor of women and blacks.
By the time her flatmates return from work, the victim has become the oppressor.
There are conflicts where one side is a fully armed and violent oppressor while the other side is defenseless and oppressed.
But he soon perceived that, if the people were oppressed, they kissed the rod of the oppressor, as they gave no signs of rising.
Every case of slavery, however lenient its inflictions and mitigated its atrocities, indicates an oppressor, the oppressed, and oppression.
They went into hiding in Katlijk, but where betrayed and fusilladed by the German oppressor.
The empathy was evidently always with the freedom fighter as he took on the might of the oppressor.
I also believed that children weren't lazy, idle, unmotivated, all the usual list of adjectives the oppressor puts on the oppressed.
Howard's mulish attitude had made David seem to him more like an oppressor than someone trying to help him learn something.
Three years and two days ago, troops came to Afghanistan to free a people who had been subjugated by a cruel and vicious oppressor.
If we do not, we allow our opponents to say we are coddlers of evil, allowing an oppressor to rule unchecked.
Everywhere in the world we see that the oppressed people take their anger out more readily on each other than on their perceived oppressor.
Classical tyrannicide was valorized because it could remove the oppressor with the minimum force.
The oppressed has become the oppressor, with the tables being ruthlessly overturned.
Black cops under apartheid were despised because they were correctly seen as serving the interests of the oppressor.
He demanded to be treated with dignity, and he thereby reminded his foes of the common humanity shared even between victim and oppressor.
Despite the independence of its former colonies, French imperialism is the main plunderer and oppressor in the region.
The West was not seen as an ally in the fight for democracy and progress, but as a colonial profiteer and oppressor.
The conflict is revealed as unjust, with the opponents clearly presented as victim and oppressor.
In other words, to put the tyrant and the oppressor in a good light, while condemning their victims and the ones they oppressed.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As a matter of fact, if the priest has possessions and privileges, he at once appears in the light of an oppressor.
You, when smitten on the right cheek, turned unto the oppressor the left.
I give it you if you really wished to avenge the weak and oppressed against the oppressor.
The Achaeans were now reduced to the dilemma of submitting to Cleomenes, or of supplicating the aid of Macedon, its former oppressor.
Long ago oppressor and oppressed, prophet and scorner, had been dust.
With tears rolling down her cheeks the victim points to her oppressor.
Nor will I even vindicate myself at the expense of my oppressor, who stands there listening to the fictions and surmises which seem to convert the tyrant into the victim.
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