Sentence examples for persecute from inspiring English sources

Cathars ambushed him in a forest and killed him – thus giving the official church even more excuse to persecute "heretics".

Putin concluded far from where he began, comparing the charges against Fifa officials to those against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: "Unfortunately, our American partners use such methods to achieve their own selfish aims, and in so doing illegally persecute people".

Whenever governments in unstable places persecute believers, that policy is not merely bad in itself but dangerous because it has the perverse effect of weakening moderate people of faith and empowering extremism.

These groups focus on drug-trafficking, but are also thought to persecute trade unionists.

Others recognise that the AUC is independent of the army, and that government policy must be directed to make the army persecute the AUC as criminals.

In recent days, following months of delays, Mr Duhalde has at last achieved some of the Fund's preconditions for a rescue: Argentina's three big provinces have been arm-twisted the larm-twisted thesigned up on Tuesday—into agreements to cut their deficits and stop issuing private quasi-currencies; and an "economic subversion" last uSanta Feersigned foreign bankers, has been repealed.

Another set of papers in the latest Lancet excoriate those who do not particularly those who persecute prostitutes.