Sentence examples for actually persecuted from inspiring English sources

In most countries around the world, gay people aren't just disallowed from coming together in a legal sense; they are actually persecuted by governments because of their sexuality.

Could there eventually come a day when our popular culture's disposition toward all things zombie-related goes from fixation to saturation, from saturation to revulsion, and from revulsion to a point where people are actually persecuted for showing zombie movies?

Galileo not only profited little from his life's work; he was actually persecuted for his findings concerning the structure of the solar system.

"Their fears may be exaggerated because few in the UK are actually persecuted, but the prime minister has done more than any other recent political leader to feed these anxieties".

The Holocaust and all it represents should only be invoked in our contemporary political discourse when human beings, Jews or non-Jews, are actually persecuted or threatened with destruction.

You are not actually being persecuted at all.

I always thought school had been harder for me than anyone else, but it's nice to know that I wasn't just paranoid, I was actually being persecuted by the Morning Star.

Turing, persecuted for his homosexuality, actually did die of poisoning, perhaps by biting into a cyanide-laced apple.

"To be given refugee status you have to prove that you have had an awful time, that you have been persecuted, at risk of torture or actually tortured.

Instead of offering relief, Calvinism provided a metaphysical framework for depression: if you felt isolated, persecuted and possibly damned, this was because you actually were.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but before you can truly be persecuted for being Christian, you would need to actually behave in a manner that at least somewhat resembles Christ.