oppressors in English

noun
1
a person or group that oppresses people.
they overthrew their colonial oppressors
synonyms:persecutortyrantdespotautocratdictatorsubjugatortormentorslave drivertaskmaster

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1. Woe to the oppressors!

2. We are a harried people, beset by oppressors.

3. Sisters, we must rise up and defeat our oppressors.

4. Lacking sovereignty, they could organise no defence against their oppressors.

5. Yet you say thank you... and you bow to your oppressors.

6. In the year 1789 the downtrodden French peasantry turned upon their oppressors.

7. Through Samson, Jehovah initiated a fight against the cruel oppressors of his people.

8. It Bewailed the fallen honours of the Abencerrages, and imprecated vengeance on their oppressors

9. 12 And my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them.

10. They cannot forget the humiliation they suffered at the hands of their oppressors.

11. 16 They can lapse into a forgetful toadyism, and abase themselves before their historical oppressors.

12. Synonyms for Bullyboys include intimidators, hectors, bully, oppressors, thugs, heavies, hooligans, yobs, harassers and rascals

13. Synonyms for Autarchs include kings, dictators, despots, tyrants, oppressors, totalitarians, authoritarians, fuehrers, absolutists and autocrats

14. Jehovah will become a speedy witness against sorcerers, adulterers, those swearing falsely, defrauders, and oppressors. —3:1-5.

15. The classical trend in criminal politics was sustained by the demand for protection from the oppressors' systematic Arbitrarinesses.

16. Refugees may not have the option of returning to their homeland as long as their oppressors remain in power.

17. The oppressors came from various directions; the areas where the Judges were active were not always the same.

18. As a child, he developed a deep hatred of the English, whom he saw as “oppressors of the Irish people.”

19. Yet, they also took the initiative to alleviate the affliction, such as by using ingenuity to escape oppressors.

20. 16 As with young Jesus and his family, refugees may not have the option of returning to their homeland as long as their oppressors remain in power.

21. It was not lost on many Muslims, for example, that the rallying cry, "Bande Mataram", had first appeared in the novel Anandmath in which Hindus had battled their Muslim oppressors.

22. This post-apocalyptic RPG casts the player as a member of an underground resistance organization trying to free the human inhabitants of planet XK-120 from the clutches of a tyrannical race of robotic oppressors known as the Tzorgs.

23. 20 It will be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry out to Jehovah because of the oppressors, and he will send them a savior, a grand one, who will save them.

24. Some of the changes included a shift in focus from conflict within the group to conflict between the teens and their oppressors, and the acceleration of the ages of some of the characters from early teens to high school age and beyond.

25. 29 Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

26. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.