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1. Because of your actions, because of your assault on our brothers in arms, because of your oppression of belief and the one true God, these men will die today

2. Do you see the implications in the culture? The altar and the sacrifices have been symbols of oppression and anxiety

3. ” Remember that these are people who use power and strength and force to oppress people and get richer and richer off of the oppression of the poor

4. What manner of a man is this? Too many of us would have taken that opportunity to kill Saul and relieve self from oppression

5. David allowed Saul to live, and therefore remained under oppression

6. Know that oppression and

7. with the yoke of oppression, with the

8. 8By oppression and judgment he was taken away

9. their chains, breaking the yoke of oppression, and bringing with the

10. In every different branch, the oppression of the poor must establish the monopoly of the rich, who, by engrossing the whole trade to themselves, will be able to make very large profits

11. themselves to be exposed to this oppression without a remedy

12. To make and maintain the high roads, a servitude which still subsists, I believe, everywhere, though with different degrees of oppression in different countries, was not the only one

13. Great Britain is, I believe, the only monarchy in Europe where the oppression of purveyance has been entirely abolished

14. In order to understand this, it must be remembered, that, in those days, the sovereign of perhaps no country in Europe was able to protect, through the whole extent of his dominions, the weaker part of his subjects from the oppression of the great lords

15. To dream that you are caught in barbed wire symbolizes oppression and confinement

16. Even the oppression of the exclusive company, to which it was for some time subjected with all the other colonies of France, though it no doubt retarded, had not been able to stop its progress altogether

17. The course of its prosperity returned as soon as it was relieved from that oppression

18. The people on the other side of the water are afraid lest their distance from the seat of government might expose them to many oppressions ; but their representatives in parliament, of which the number ought from the first to be considerable, would easily be able to protect them from all oppression

19. The unjust oppression of the industry of other countries falls back, if I may say so, upon the heads of the oppressors, and crushes their industry more than it does that of those other countries

20. By different arts of oppression, they have reduced the population of several of the Moluccas nearly to the number which is sufficient to supply with fresh provisions, and other necessaries of life, their own insignificant garrisons, and such of their ships as occasionally come there for a cargo of spices

21. His subjects, upon ordinary occasions, contribute nothing to his support, except when, in order to protect them from the oppression of some of their fellow-subjects, they stand in need of his authority

22. Under the local or provincial administration of the justices of the peace in Great Britain, the six days labour which the country people are obliged to give to the reparation of the highways, is not always, perhaps, very judiciously applied, but it is scarce ever exacted with any circumstance of cruelty or oppression

23. To prevent any oppression by those bye-laws, it was by the same act ordained, that if any seven members of the company conceived themselves aggrieved by any bye-law which should be enacted after the passing of this act, they might appeal to the board of trade and plantations (to the authority of which a committee of the privy council has now succeeded), provided such appeal was brought within twelve months after the bye-law was enacted; and that, if any seven members conceived themselves aggrieved by any bye-law which had been enacted before the passing of this act, they might bring a like appeal, provided it was within twelve months after the day on which this act was to take place

24. Their ill success was imputed, by their factors and agents, to the extortion and oppression of the Spanish government ; but was, perhaps, principally owing to the profusion and depredations of those very factors and agents; some of whom are said to have acquired great fortunes, even in one year

25. } Fourthly, by subjecting the people to the frequent visits and the odious examination of the tax-gatherers, it may expose them to much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and oppression ; and though vexation is not, strictly speaking, expense, it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it

26. Male oppression? I wasn't there

27. A tax of this kind, when it is proportioned to the trade of the dealer, is finally paid by the consumer, and occasions no oppression to the dealer

28. When it is not so proportioned, but is the same upon all dealers, though in this case, too, it is finally paid by the consumer, yet it favours the great, and occasions some oppression to the small dealer

29. The tax of twenty shillings a-year for a licence to sell ale; of forty shillings for a licence to sell spiritous liquors ; and of forty shillings more for a licence to sell wine, being the same upon all retailers, must necessarily give some advantage to the great, and occasion some oppression to the small dealers

30. This mode of taxation, therefore, it seems evident, could never, without the most grievous oppression, produce a revenue nearly equal to what is derived from the present mode without any oppression

31. Oppose the oppression

32. Fourthly, such taxes, by subjecting at least the dealers in the taxed commodities, to the frequent visits and odious examination of the tax-gatherers, expose them sometimes, no doubt, to some degree of oppression, and always to much trouble and vexation; and though vexation, as has already been said, is not strictly speaking expense, it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it

33. My challenges have been raising a special needs child, inappropriate relationships, a poverty mentality and the consequences of this negative environment, internalized oppression, a dysfunctional family that was not able to give me support, and my own insecurities in having to deal with all of these dynamics

34. ‘In this time of crisis we will stand resolute and unyielding in the face American oppression

35. So how on earth could a noble organization, (oh yes, I can hear you leftist longhaired liberals laughing), transform from a police force serving citizens to a feared “instrument of oppression” where 70% of the population were mistreated, much to their dissatisfaction?

36. An instrument of oppression was created overnight and the SAP should never have been placed in such a position

37. Think about it: if the Apartheid laws had never existed and SAP had all those years only focused on crime, do you think they would be thought of today as an “instrument of oppression?” Absolutely not! Would the Security Branch have existed in the form it took on in later years? No

38. More people will die, and the SAPS will again be seen as a “tool of oppression” if they are not careful

39. My sons, shall I continue? Or will you now see the word of The Lord, and hear the voice of The Holy One, unto the oppression of strong nations with a word?

40. Hear therefore, The Lord’s complaint: The foot of oppression weighs heavily upon the poor, and the needy are crushed beneath the power of evil men

41. All four nations are or were often held up by racists as supposed proof that nonwhites are inherently incapable of government and will seek out revenge against white oppression, so therefore white oppression should continue

42. Word would likely have spread ahead of them as they migrated south, that they were peaceful and that they were, in effect, only fleeing oppression

43. He seemed to have miraculously relieved their oppression, but did that make him their judge?

44. He had not required the reformation of their waywardness before he had relieved their oppression, although they had started the process

45. Jer 22:17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it

46. 15 He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression

47. 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, for they throw iniquity on me, and in anger they hate

48. 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily

49. 7 Surely oppression makes a wise man mad; and a gift destroys the heart

50. hosts said, cut down the trees, and throw a mountain against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she has wholesome oppression in

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