Sentence examples for a persecution in from inspiring English sources

After Nero, a major persecution occurred under the emperor Domitian and a persecution in 177 took place at Lugdunum, the Gallo-Roman religious capital.

Well, nothing other than to reinforce a persecution complex in the minds of certain Christians.

Converso, (Spanish: "converted"), one of the Spanish Jews who adopted the Christian religion after a severe persecution in the late 14th and early 15th centuries and the expulsion of religious Jews from Spain in the 1490s.

When he returned to London at the beginning of 1766 (to become, a year later, undersecretary of state), he brought Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Swiss-born philosopher connected with the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and d'Alembert, with him and found him a refuge from persecution in a country house at Wootton in Staffordshire.

An "asylum seeker" is a person seeking security from persecution in a country other than his/her own and awaits a decision on the application for refugee status under relevant international and national instruments.

Expelled from Gutthiuda during a persecution of Christians, Ulfilas settled in Moesia in 348.

"There is a persecution of professionals, not only in the marches, but in the hospitals as well.

But I'm also a survivor of persecution in Afghanistan and state-sanctioned abuse on Nauru.

He claimed to be a refugee fleeing persecution in Iran; it now seems likely he fled after embezzling money.

Human rights activists say this has created a system of persecution in the country's hospitals as well as its courts, where any woman – and particularly a poor, young woman who loses her baby – is suspect.

Asylees and refugees share one thing in common: a fear of persecution in the their country of origin.