Guru Hargobind started to militarise Sikhs so that they would be able to resist any oppression.
Ben Ali's repressive regime was known for its harsh oppression of all forms of Islamists.
Subjected to centuries of oppression and forced ghettoization they developed coping strategies that performed adequately.
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What Jesus abhorred was violence or any other evil in the service of exploitation and oppression.
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That spares Miss Megawati from having to work openly with the symbol of past oppression.
This year's Arabic Booker prize shortlist is dominated by gloomy works about the oppression that prevailed before 2011.
When Patrick Lyons arrived in America he was fleeing famine compounded by centuries of oppression and misrule.
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So Judah Maccabee gathered a small band of believers to fight this oppression, and against all odds, they prevailed.
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Mandela urged nonviolent solutions to the South African government's political, economic and social oppression of the nation's black majority.
Slaves transcended oppression and bequeathed to the world a boundlessly rich cultural heritage.
With help from U.S. authorities, they fled the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq to escape the oppression of Saddam Hussein.
Some were adventurers, some sought land and treasure, some escaped oppression and famines, and yes, some arrived in shackled bondage.
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Far larger numbers of Burmese, and those fleeing poverty and oppression in Laos and Cambodia, live illegally all over Thailand.
This week, Jewish families gathered around the Seder table, commemorating the Exodus from Egypt and the triumph of faith over oppression.
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The writers, William Nicholson and Ngemi, and the director, Darrell James Roodt, take admirable positions against violence as well as oppression.
The Berlin Wall once stood as a painful barrier between family and friends, a dark symbol of oppression and stifled liberties.
And I realized I was looking down a never-ending rabbit hole of precognitive stereotypes, subconscious programming and centuries of oppression and suppression.
The CEO is The Man, plodding along the expected routes, expecting the same of his subordinates, becoming the figurehead of corporate oppression.
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Those of decades past learned from the pains of oppression and battle.
Tribal wrong-doing is often explained away as a reasonable reaction to years of oppression, an explanation that many tribes do not discourage.
As the research group, based in Washington, DC, rightly notes, the two forms of oppression sometimes go hand and hand, and sometimes diverge completely.
Forty years ago, progressives were sure that court-ordered busing of school children to achieve racial integration represented a great victory over bigotry and oppression.
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The office has worked to hold governments accountable for the systematic oppression of girls and women and fought for their education in emerging countries.
Semler has purged his firm of what he calls "corporate oppression, " including time clocks, dress codes, privileged office spaces and perks for top executives.
But at its most basic level, the feminist label has never been solely or even predominantly about preventing and ending oppression or discrimination of women.
The Internet itself is not inherently -- to state the obvious -- is not inherently a force for democracy or oppression, for war or for peace.
As Dr. King began to travel the world, speaking out against racism and later class-based oppression, we know Coretta as the wife who traveled with him.
Unlike so many he did not internalize the brutalities and prejudices of oppressors only to visit the very same quality on others when the oppression vanished.
Fictional or historical, the characters are often portrayed as latter-day Robin Hoods, victims of oppression or the everyman brutalized by an economy or authority, Rapping said.
More importantly, many were also suspicious of Mr Estrada's attempts to alter the constitution, which they see as a bulwark against a return to Marcos-style oppression.
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