Sentence examples for acts of persecution from inspiring English sources

That was the first of many acts of persecution.

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

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A key issue often is whether the defendant assisted in 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.

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.

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines described the arrest as a "shameless act of persecution by a bully government".

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.