Sentence examples for act of persecution from inspiring English sources

This is a strictly unilateral assault, a grand act of persecution.

Now locals, citizens and politicians alike, are describing Wert's new education proposal as another act of persecution.

In a concurring opinion, Judge Straub, called genital cutting "a horrendous act of persecution" that had "serious life consequences," adding that the Board of Immigration Appeals had "simply failed".

In tossing out the board's decision, the appeals court said genital cutting was not necessarily a "one-time act" of persecution, citing the case of a woman from Sierra Leone whose vagina was sewn shut with a thorn and then cut open each time her husband wished to have sex.

That was the first of many acts of persecution.

"But these acts of persecution are acts of fear -- and therefore of weakness".

[cartoon id= a18670"] That was the first of many acts of persecution.

Many Fulanis hold members of the rival Mandinka ethnicity, Guinea's second largest, partly responsible for the stadium massacre and for other acts of persecution in Guinea.

"I argued that without evidence of direct participation in any acts of persecution, that he was not deportable," Mr. Murtha said.

At Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the Holocaust, the pope expressed deep sorrow for acts of persecution and anti-Semitism "against the Jews by Christians at any time and in any place".

At Yad Vashem he echoed the church's recent apology for past errors, saying he deplored "the hatred, acts of persecution and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews by Christians at any time and any place".