Sentence examples for a persecution from inspiring English sources

I so do not have a persecution complex.

Ms. Bhutto described the investigation as a persecution.

Either he's being disingenuous or he has a persecution complex of Norse-saga proportions.

The possible charges, he argued, amounted to "a persecution" of people and their ideas rather than specific crimes.

This opened a persecution of icon venerators that was severe in the reign of Leo's successor, Constantine V (741 775).

There are persons who come to the point that they are so self-centered that they end up with a persecution complex and the end result is insanity.

I thought of the millions of displaced Syrian refugees who'd travel weeks on a boat just to find a persecution-free haven and said 800 square feet overlooking Central Park doesn't exactly render me a victim.

— could give a guy a serious persecution complex, no?

This web-based project is a response to an escalating persecution of workers who lack immigration papers, and a projection in urban planning terms, of the evolving American concept of the Sanctuary City.

Then, in 1895, Wilde went to jail, in the wake of a sexual persecution that had been set in motion by Bosie's disaster of a father.

Shortly after Sixtus' election, the Roman emperor Valerian promulgated his first decree against the Christians, and a violent persecution ensued.