Sentence examples for background of persecution from inspiring English sources

From this background of persecution and survival, Sheila was sent at the age of eight to the progressive boarding school Dartington, which provided an early experience of group living.

Nuria Bienert, who works for Amnesty, says: "A fact that proves a background of gender persecution is that in Spain there is a lot of sexual violence.

But genocide and mass murder took place in mid-20th-century Europe against a background of centuries of persecution in which the church was an active accomplice.

But Canadian authorities turned down his request for political asylum a year later, saying his account of his background and persecution was not plausible.

The number of urban refugees, that is, refugees from either an urban or rural background who have fled their home countries because of a fear of persecution and are now living in an urban area of a new country, are growing in comparison to camp-based refugees [ 2].

To win refugee status in Canada, immigrants must show a reasonable fear of persecution connected to their race, religion, nationality or political background.

To win refugee status from the Refugee and Immigration Board of Canada, immigrants must show "a well founded fear of persecution" linked to their race, religion, nationality or political background, said Charles Hawkins a spokesman for the board.

The object of persecution is persecution.

Jobbik is already complaining of persecution.

So, apparently, is a feeling of persecution.

Yet the memories of persecution are tangible.