So in my experience, if you've got a persecution delusion, on the whole, people really don't want that to continue because it's very frightening, terrifying.
The whole business, he implies more than once, is just a distraction, one more persecution on an already lengthy manifest.
This was a conscious decision by Mandela to make a peace offering -- to offer a clear message of national unity, of magnanimity, of a future without persecution on any side.
As a species of what the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin called "negative liberty"—characterized by noninterference, or the absence of external constraints on individual action toleration has historically tended to fall somewhere between persecution on the one hand and full liberty and equality on the other.
It really has to be a fear of persecution on the basis of race, religion, political positioning, and so on.
It is true, they said, that a federal law says asylum may be granted when an alien fears persecution "on account of" family membership.
Scorsese's epic adaptation of Shusaku Endo's novel about two Jesuit Portuguese Catholic priests (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) facing persecution on a trip to Japan to find a priest (Liam Neeson) who has lost his faith, ranks as the most challenging project of the film-maker's storied career.
Silence Here's one everyone's waiting for: Martin Scorsese's epic adaptation of Shusaku Endo's novel about two Jesuit Portuguese Catholic priests (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) facing persecution on a trip to Japan to find a priest (Liam Neeson) who has lost his faith.
It is specifically written into US immigration statutes: a refugee is someone who has a "well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion".
Isis members have committed human trafficking and slavery, particularly against the Yazidi minority, whose persecution on a mountaintop in Iraq last year sparked Obama to begin airstrikes on Isis.
