Sentence examples for being persecuted for a from inspiring English sources

A section taking place in AD203 shows early martyr Saint Perpetua being persecuted for a flirtation with Christianity, the religion in whose name many of the novel's 20th-century characters will be persecuted in turn.

The resolution to this complex legal issue is being decided in a highly charged political environment, with the troopers' supporters insisting that the officers are being persecuted for an honest mistake, and civil rights leaders portraying the case as the ultimate test of the state's resolve to apply discipline in cases of police misconduct.

She was being persecuted for an aspect of her identity beyond her control.

LGBT refugees are some of the most vulnerable forced migrants they are often fleeing their country because they have been persecuted for an unchangeable aspect of who they are into the arms of another country where they might very well be persecuted again.

LGBT refugees are some of the most vulnerable forced migrants – they are often fleeing their country because they have been persecuted for an unchangeable aspect of who they are into the arms of another country where they might very well be persecuted again.

Stewart claimed she was being persecuted for being a successful woman in business.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund chief and alleged "pimp", is being persecuted for being a famous and "lustful" man, his lawyers protested yesterday.

There were plenty of cases in Soviet Russia of people being persecuted for making an inappropriate joke – one story, in which a newspaper through a misprint refers to Sralin, or Man of Shit, instead of Stalin, or Man of Steel, is immortalised in Tarkovsky's film Mirror.

The 1951 U.N. Convention relating to the Status of Refugees defines a refugee as a person with a genuine fear of being persecuted for membership in a particular social group or class.

Mr. Tom gets special treatment for "being persecuted," for having "built a company out of an American pastime," and for simply trying to help the poker-loving community.

The Nazi occupation of Vienna contributed to Trubetskoy's death: he suffered a severe heart attack after being persecuted for having published an article critical of racist theory.