Sentence examples for As a persecution from inspiring English sources

The grievances Holder nursed against his superior officers escalated in the spring of 1972, when he became obsessed with Davis's conspiracy trial, which he perceived as a persecution.

It also allowed him to rally even non-Scientologists to his defense against increasingly hostile government agencies, presenting any of his troubles as a persecution of religion, violating the separation of church and state.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales, described Isis's treatment of Christian, Yazidi and other communities as "a persecution of immense proportions" and urged the UK government to act.

What is the church that does not accept that Jerusalem should be the indivisible capital of the State of Israel, but that it should be the capital of the three great monotheistic religions?" Rodriguez then goes on to compare the Jewish-controlled media with "Hitler," because they are "protagonists of what I do not hesitate to define as a persecution against the Church".

According to Coquet, Andreas claimed a "persecution complex" as a result of being molested as a young boy.

"Because if there is such a thing as a political persecution, if it can happen to Anwar, it can happen to the rest of us".

Her story is being packaged as a Christian persecution narrative, but nothing is stopping that woman from practicing her religion.

A defiant Berlusconi told supporters gathered outside his Rome residence that "no political leader has suffered a persecution such as I have lived through".

Lastly, hopes of trade with Spain evaporated when Hasekura communicated that the Spanish King would not enter an agreement as long as persecutions were occurring in the rest of the country.

"As a consequence of persecution, the country is much poorer," he says.

"We perceive [the arrests] as a retaliation and persecution for documenting the truth," they said.