Sentence examples for as a persecuted from inspiring English sources

Wahlström has described his father as a persecuted intellectual comparable to Salman Rushdie, but refused to talk to a Swedish radio programme investigating the story.

Another ace in the hole for Mr. Kim has been the country's burgeoning civic groups, which once strongly supported the president because of his credentials in the democracy and human rights movement that date to his long years as a persecuted dissident.

Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series openly treats vampires as a persecuted minority.

On the contrary, he saw his son as a persecuted Jesus, and himself as the grieving Father.

The Pilgrims analogy is apt, because Mr. Srinivasan cast entrepreneurs as a persecuted people who must flee to survive.

Zoroastrians, called Gabars by the Muslims, survived in Iran as a persecuted minority in small enclaves at Yazd and Kerman.

In Moscow, North Caucasians have acquired a complicated double status as a poor persecuted minority and a rich unprosecutable one: those with ties to Kadyrov or a direct line to the federal trough are routinely placed above the Russian law, which in turn provokes Russian nationalists to lash out at all Chechens.

It counts as progress of another sort that a Tory chancellor can pay tribute to Turing as a hero "persecuted for his sexuality by the country he helped to save".

Stalin, abused as a boy, persecuted his own family.

That's because Nichols was born in Berlin but, as a Jew persecuted under the Nazi regime, immigrated at the age of seven to New York.

As a journalist persecuted for my writings in Iran, I find it remarkable that Rouhani can take advantage of press freedom in America, publishing op-eds and making media appearances while at the same time keeping prominent Iranian journalists imprisoned.