Sentence examples for climate of persecution from inspiring English sources

Finally, the authors present a discomforting picture of how easily career opportunism, political demagogy and fear of having one's loyalty suspected can resurrect a McCarthyite climate of persecution.

And he had harsh words for the investigation, saying that Brazil was currently living in a "climate of persecution".

Yet it was unlike any other Mother's Day story, because all those familiar things happened amid an almost unimaginable climate of religious persecution.

The church says it will hold a hearing in March and invite 172 churches and groups it says have been attacked by the commission "to tell us how the climate of religious persecution has affected them".

I have no choice". As the fourth year of war nears its end, the Middle East's largest refugee crisis since the Palestinian exodus from Israel in 1948 is unfolding in a climate of fear, persecution and tragedy.

The head of the UN's climate change panel has accused politicians and prominent climate sceptics of "a new form of persecution" against scientists who work on global warming.

Pressed on the bombing of a Serb TV station in which several civilians were killed, Mr Shea said: "The television station was attacked because it was not the BBC or CNN, it was being used to push out propaganda and to create a climate of hatred in which the persecution of Albanians could be accepted as normal by the greater majority of the Serb population".

To put that horrifying figure another way that's about one in 100 of the world's population forced to flee due to war, famine, climate change, persecution, or any combination of the above.

Attitudes to refugees – defined as those who have a well-founded fear of persecution in their home countries – are inevitably affected by this climate of suspicion.

The object of persecution is persecution.

And this conviction is in one lived of persecution.