(a.) Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power.
Example Sentences:
(1) Merkel, whose father was a pastor in communist Eastern Germany , has suddenly discovered a deep affection for the downtrodden people of Greece.
(2) "We've got to be tough and robust in saying to people you are not in a downtrodden village or woodland, because many of them don't even live in areas where there are toilets or refuse collection facilities," he said.
(3) For me that is one of the most important battles for fairness.” During the presidential campaign he was caught moaning about “intellectual women who think they are downtrodden”, or who talk about their “ compañera ” cleaning lady, “when she is really the servant”.
(4) Blunkett had said the Roma groups from Slovakia who had settled in a district of Sheffield were behaving like they were living in a "downtrodden village or woodland".
(5) The Mariners have yet to return to the postseason since, and have been floundering in mediocrity even as formerly downtrodden teams like the Tampa Bay Rays, Cleveland Indians and Milwaukee Brewers have had at least blips of playoff relevance.
(6) In every city, in those places GK Chesterton called “the faraway towns”, England’s grey unpleasant land erupted as the furious energy of the downtrodden urban poor was unleashed on our streets.
(7) Tony-nominated stage star Brandon Maggart stars as Harry, a downtrodden toy factory worker who spends his spare time spying on neighbourhood children and compiling their names in his ominous book of "Bad Boys & Girls".
(8) It is too early to hang out any bunting but quietly, tentatively, a more upbeat mood is spreading in Detroit's downtrodden, downsized motor industry.
(9) "There's a lot of downtrodden people there who got a shot at a free life, at freedom," says Popaditch, 46, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2012.
(10) Pope Francis has urged the downtrodden to change the world economic order, denouncing a “new colonialism” by agencies that impose austerity programs and calling for the poor to have the “sacred rights” of labor, lodging and land.
(11) Stafford Smith said: "Shaker was absolutely thrilled with the letter from Hague, it shows how a certain amount of personal commitment by someone in power can help someone who has been downtrodden in such a ghastly way.
(12) With their concern for the downtrodden, the clergy and congregation alike would want to resist that description today.
(13) The Treasury's carefully crafted riposte, spelled out in the autumn statement green book last week, is that rather than a tale of skinflint employers and their downtrodden staff, the weakness of take-home pay is a consequence of the increased cost to employers of providing staff pensions, and paying higher national insurance contributions after the rate rose under Labour.
(14) The howls of the poor, put-upon, downtrodden (and mostly white) fans of Washington's football team will undoubtedly come out in force.
(15) His name was “as familiar to the downtrodden in the slums of south-east Asia and the villages of Africa as it was to cheering crowds in Madison Square Garden”, the president said.
(16) Read more Kobe Bryant added 12 points in helping the Lakers earn one of the biggest upsets in NBA history and their biggest victory in a downtrodden farewell season for Bryant, who spent the fourth quarter on the bench resting his aching right shoulder.
(17) "At the time, the general view of these women was that they were downtrodden, second-class people," says Ruth Pearson, professor of development studies at Leeds University.
(18) She’s generous, champions the downtrodden and amuses her sick friends by doing acrobatics at their window, hugging them and even the wrapping paper when they give her a present.
(19) But his words touched a nerve with those who believe San Francisco – with its booming tech economy and sky-high housing costs – panders to the wealthy at the expense of the downtrodden.
(20) I left the DMV and thought, “It just isn’t right.” I felt so downtrodden.
Subjugated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Subjugate
Example Sentences:
(1) Although he could be lovable, charming, whimsical, encouraging, and deeply devoted to his family, he subjugated the adult women in his household and at least one son to exploitation and abuse, demanding (and receiving from his wife and step-daughter) almost total abnegation of self.
(2) It is very disturbing that today's social customs allow Dr. Cornwell to advise that personal moral values should be subjugated to those of the community.
(3) If a Muslim candidate did not renounce such aspects of his or her faith, Carson said, “Why in fact would you take that chance?” Referring to criticism of his remark last weekend to NBC that he “would not advocate” a Muslim becoming president, Carson said: “I said anybody, doesn’t matter what their religious background, if they accept American values and principles and are willing to subjugate their religious beliefs to our constitution, I have no problem with them.” Article VI of the US constitution states: “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” The first amendment to the constitution says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof …” Carson is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
(4) The next conquest by William in 1066 crushed Anglo-Saxon England, but that in turn would produce the idea of “the Norman yoke”, which had supposedly subjugated the English people.
(5) Egypt's breadbasket is littered with the remnants of old colonisers, from the Romans to the Germans, and today its 50 million inhabitants jostle for space among the crumbling forts and cemeteries of those who sought to subjugate them in the past.
(6) The judiciary branch, according to these three laws, would become subjugated to the executive,” said Ewa Łętowska, a professor at Poland’s Institute of Legal Sciences and a former judge who served on the country’s constitutional tribunal and the supreme administrative court.
(7) When psychotherapy is viewed as inherently a change-facilitating process, subjugated to and oriented toward such events, the therapist's function is catalytic rather than analytic.
(8) With the Somali women who were the antithesis of the stereotyped, subjugated Muslim female – strong, proud, fighters to the end.
(9) LaPierre says look at the Second Amendment: "They had lived under the tyranny of King George and they wanted to make sure that these people in this new country would never be subjugated to tyranny... Then LaPierre says if there's an earthquake people need guns: "The only way they're going to be able to protect themselves in the cold, in the dark, when they're vulnerable, is with a gun."
(10) And yet the latest criticism from Brussels inspires a rightwing magazine cover showing European leaders wearing Nazi uniform: “Once again they want to subjugate Poland.” The PiS government is “anti-European”.
(11) Although the modern medical culture has originated in the West, it has gradually spread to all parts of the world, subjugating other kinds of medical knowledge and other attitudes to dying and death.
(12) Has the epidemic mass rape in Congo got something to do with the country's own history, the result of many years of subjugation, played back?
(13) It is no more justifiable than saying that the only future which religious Jews - as Jews - can envision is one in which non-Jews live in complete slavery and subjugation: a claim often made by anti-semites based on highly selective passages from the Talmud .
(14) His own daughter, a glamorous lawyer, is certainly no subjugated eastern woman.
(15) They are those who do not want Britain to look after its own economic interests and wants it to be subjugated to them for ever."
(16) And so they came by the thousands from every corner of our country, men and women, young and old, blacks who longed for freedom and whites who could no longer accept freedom for themselves while witnessing the subjugation of others.
(17) These connections survived Moon's increasingly embarrassing activities – his sermons dwelling on the "sexual organs", his description of American women as descended from prostitutes, family scandals, Rabbinic court condemnation for antisemitism and a vow to "conquer and subjugate the world".
(18) As a fellow Rhodes scholar and an African woman, I frequently get asked why, in the face of Rhodes's bloody and destructive quest to subjugate an entire generation of my people, I would accept money from a trust set up in his name.
(19) During subjugation and inertial feeding the skull remains ventroflexed.
(20) Asked in 2005 to elaborate on the meaning of the band's lyrics, Page replied: "The topics vary from sociological issues, religion, and how the value of human life has been degraded by being submissive to tyranny and hypocrisy that we are subjugated to."