Sentence examples for are persecuted by from inspiring English sources
Every time we are persecuted by the central propaganda department, the circulation goes up.
After his election in 2007, Mr Sarkozy promised "all those who are persecuted by tyrannies and dictatorships" that "they could count on" France.
The "good Kurds" in the eyes of the United States are those who live in Iraq and are persecuted by Saddam Hussein.
Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington has pledged to defend contributors to its new Arabic-language offshoot if they are persecuted by governments in the region for what they write on the site.
These in turn are persecuted by zealous Irish-Catholic copper Arthur Kennedy (a million miles from his career-zenith in the 50s playing alongside Jimmy Stewart in The Man from Laramie and Humphrey Bogart in The Desperate Hours).
The first German version of this old legend which itself probably derives from a fairy tale of seven brothers who are persecuted by a wicked grandmother and then metamorphosed into swans appeared in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival (c. 1210), a poem chiefly concerned with the theme of the Holy Grail.
Are you ever afraid of being persecuted by Iranian fanatics?
