Sentence examples for by persecuting from inspiring English sources

Nicky Morgan is responding to a 'guilty' verdict by persecuting the accuser and protecting the wrongdoer.

His critics say that by persecuting the Muslim Brotherhood he is providing Isis supporters with a new constituency.

Pullman once told an interviewer that "every single religion that has a monotheistic god ends up by persecuting other people and killing them because they don't accept him".

We should not be adding to disadvantage by persecuting or ostracising even more black people because of who they are compelled to love.

But Mr. Maliki also bears responsibility for the breakdown: By persecuting the Sunni and Kurdish communities and undermining institutions such as the parliament and courts, he has done much to polarize his country.

"There's nothing more corrosive to a society if you've got people who want to destroy from within by persecuting others because of their colour or a different ethnic background.

They are set to music by composers persecuted by the Nazis; the scores will be performed live by the Juilliard Orchestra.

And the odd scene here and there reminded me of the tone of Broadchurch (where the grieving parents are also alternately comforted by and persecuted by their environment).

The militias are led mainly by Islamists persecuted for decades by Colonel Qaddafi's soldiers and police officers.

In Britain, goshawks were extinct by the late 19th century, persecuted by humans who saw them as vermin.

He claimed that the US government was persecuting him by charging him with espionage.