Sentence examples for but persecuted from inspiring English sources

"Lula is not being prosecuted but persecuted ― politically persecuted," Valeska Zanin Martins, da Silva's co-counsel, told HuffPost.

That line, from a Mao-era slogan, referred to the fact that Mr. Ai's father was Ai Qing, a poet who was respected by Mao but persecuted during the Cultural Revolution.

In 1945 6 Berlin visited the Soviet Union; his meetings there with surviving but persecuted members of the Russian intelligentsia, particularly the poets Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, reinforced his staunch opposition to Communism, and formed his future intellectual agenda.

But persecuting all landlords helps no one.

But persecuting bloggers won't solve the country's biggest civic problem: absence of a sensible system for talking about politics.

2 Corinthians 4 8 tells us "We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed".

A Text... We are troubled on every side, but not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

In China it was forbidden in 843, but, although persecuted, it continued there at least until the 14th century.

The Soviets tolerated a Russian Orthodox Church, as long as it toed the Kremlin line, but they persecuted pretty much every other religion, including evangelical Christianity.

Beneath the surface details of the yarmulke and accent, this Shylock is vengeful, imperfect, unlikable, but also persecuted, emotionally wounded and deserving of sympathy.

His clients included victims of medical malpractice and farmers who had lost their land to development, but also persecuted Christians and adherents of Falun Gong, the outlawed spiritual movement.