English-Finnish translations for oppression

• sorto
  Koska leikistä jälkenä on vain sorto ja häpeä, For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
  Väkivalta ja sorto on lopetettava Irakissa. There must be an end to abuse and oppression in Iraq.
  Tämän päivän maailmassa valheet ja sorto perustuvat kahteen pilariin. In today's world, lies and oppression rest on two pillars.
• sortaminen
  Naisten sortaminen on hyvä asia, alkoholin juominen paha. Oppression of women is good, drinking alcohol is bad.
  Iranin kansan sortaminen on kiihtynyt viime vuosina. The past few years have seen an incredible upsurge in the oppression of people in Iran.
  Yhden Euroopan suurimman vähemmistön jatkuva sortaminen on häpeällistä ja tehotonta. The continual oppression of one of Europe's largest minorities is shameful and inefficient.

Definition of oppression

• The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner
• The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed
• A feeling of being oppressed

Examples

• The oppression of the poor by the aristocracy was one cause of the French Revolution
• Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun

Related words

• oppressive
• oppressively
• oppressiveness
• antioppression