Sentence examples for become persecuted from inspiring English sources

The film, Silence, is adapted from the 1966 Shusako Endo novel of the same name, and concerns a pair of priests who become persecuted after trying to bring Christianity to Japan in the 17th century.

In the years leading up to the incident, the Jehovah's Witnesses had become a widely persecuted religious sect, partly for their denunciation of other Christian denominations but largely for their refusal to swear allegiance to secular government.

Shakespeare writes him in three dimensions: the great "Hath not a Jew eyes" speech is a wonderful cry of pain from an oppressed man, but when he flips, and becomes unreasonable in the trial scene, the man who has been persecuted becomes the persecutor.

The opera is set in two acts, the first a kind of monumental tableau, the second a black inversion of the first, manically speeded up as Taverner the persecuted becomes the persecutor.

At one point Torak become an outcast and persecuted.

When not persecuted, they become tame and inquisitive, walking among expedition camps like chickens.

There will still be hand-wringing over bike lanes and distress that drivers and homeowners, treated so well for so long, have become L.A.'s most persecuted classes.

Whether Tea Party rallies, inner-city protests, talk-radio jockeys or politicians like Donald Trump - making your tribe feel more victimized and persecuted has become a prevalent path to leadership.

Those wildlife species that can adapt to marginal human-dominated habitats may become pests and be persecuted as a consequence.

Such a person can become "a bitter persecuting spirit" (OM 1, prop. 97).

The family had moved to Vienna from Prague in the 1870s, when Jews were being persecuted, and became prominent bankers.