Accordingly, despite power being “on the side of their oppressors,” citizens have repeatedly risen up to throw off the shackles of authoritarian government.
To throw off the press and keep his intentions hidden, Rickey got heavily involved in Gus Greenlee's newest foray into black baseball, the United States League.
In reality, Gladstone had always viewed the Egyptian-Sudanese imbroglio with distaste and had felt some sympathy for the Sudanese striving to throw off the Egyptian colonial rule.
To "China’s hundreds of millions of landless and land-poor peasants it meant to stand up, to throw off the landlord yoke, to gain land, stock, implements and houses."
To be sure, excessive zeal in denouncing Israel, and cheap comparisons between Israeli violence and Nazi mass murder, betray a dubious urge to throw off the burdens of guilt.
It was time for the international community to throw off its selectivity and double standards and address foreign occupation as a source of the most flagrant human rights violations.
A colonized people was clearly entitled to the opportunity to throw off colonialism by means of a plebiscite that offered voters the full spectrum of possible political status choices.
Many will find it hard to understand why countries in southern Africa which fought so hard to throw off oppression themselves, have been so slow to respond to the Arab Spring.
The apparent purpose behind such harsh policy was to break the spirit of the national groups and weaken or eliminate any unity of action in attempts to throw off the Assyrian yoke.
In any case, it is clear that the Reformation, in its effort to throw off the domination of papal authority, had also brought into the open those who challenged the position of the established religions.
In Blackest Night: Wonder Woman, their past relationship is referenced when Wonder Woman is able to use her feelings, for Bruce to throw off the influence of her Black Lantern ring and join the Star Sapphires.