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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a system that persecutes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an organized structure or framework that actively discriminates against or oppresses individuals or groups.
Example: "The report highlighted the flaws in a system that persecutes marginalized communities, calling for urgent reforms."
Alternatives: "a regime that oppresses" or "an institution that discriminates".
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"Millions of people are being hit by a system that persecutes people with trumped-up demands for money they don't have, creating heavy debts where none existed, effectively indenturing them while private debt collectors circle like sharks".
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She said the tactical voting by leftwingers who chose Nicolas Sarkozy's rightwing Les Républicains party in order to put up a "barricade" against the FN had already played into her claim that she and her voters were the victims of an elitist system that persecuted them.
The characters evade a system that normally persecutes minorities, and instead suffer the consequences of their own individual actions, much like rich, white men do.
But look at how they'd howl if we used the same form of argument against atheism and said: "Hitler and Stalin were atheists, they established political systems that persecuted the established religions of their societies, and those societies then killed tens of millions of innocents, therefore atheism produces genocide".
I am upset that we have a justice system that would persecute me the way it did Aaron.
The Kremlin welcomes the chance to portray Russia as a refuge for human-rights defenders, not a place that persecutes them.
Being gay in a country that persecutes homosexuals has long been grounds for refugee status, in the U.S. as well as Canada.
"The system that used to persecute me when I was a full-time vandal in the 1970's, I am now a part of," he said.
This led him to the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN), an organization that helps persecuted writers find asylum.
A state that persecutes, deprives and denies its neighbors in a manner so similar to what our tormentors did to us cannot be acceptable.
Well, that's a system!
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