Sentence examples for The persecuting from inspiring English sources

The persecuting emperor Valerian, however, became a Persian prisoner of war, and his son Gallienus issued an edict of toleration restoring confiscated churches and cemeteries.

It would be our turn, presumably, to do the persecuting.

In 1118 he accompanied Pope Gelasius II, who fled to France from the persecuting Frangipani, an influential Roman family.

For Podhoretz, far from being "persecuted and oppressed", the blacks he knew were doing the persecuting and oppressing.

In his own day he was for many a national hero, champion of the cause of true religion against the persecuting Spaniard, a mariner beyond compare, a brilliant leader of men.

The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazireturnedeturned last week to devote himself to the care of persecuted Christians; and it is Muslims, he thinks, who are doing the persecuting.

The powerful were now the persecuted.

THE Jewish state was founded as paradise for the persecuted.

Let Britain stand up for the displaced, the persecuted and the oppressed.

This novel surely belongs within that subgenre of Gothic literature associated with the persecuted woman.

"You have to stand side by side with the persecuted and the victims".