Sentence examples for considerable persecution from inspiring English sources

He also claimed that it sanctioned his coronation, and in July he became King James I. The Strangites endured considerable persecution, but Strang was able to preserve the sect and to gain acquittal in the several lawsuits brought against him.

They speak their host's language, wear his clothes, adapt his cuisine and use his architectural vocabulary to build their houses and their synagogues, yet all the while they nurture and are nurtured by their faith and their identity and their history, and they pass along this heritage to their children, often in the face of considerable persecution and pain.

The Smyrna of Souren's childhood had enjoyed relative multicultural tolerance, although as with much of the Ottoman domain, its past included considerable persecution of minorities and some day-to-day discrimination and harassment persisted.

Sociologist Ronald Lawson has suggested the religion's intellectual and organizational isolation, coupled with the intense indoctrination of adherents, rigid internal discipline and considerable persecution, has contributed to the consistency of its sense of urgency in its apocalyptic message.

They face considerable persecution from the military and are repeatedly forced to flee their homes and resettle within Myanmar.

Makhmalbaf himself has suffered considerable harassment and persecution in his home country, and was finally forced into exile in 2005.

The Baha'i Faith has a long history of persecution in Iran, where Baha'is take considerable risks to sustain their communities, which included informal efforts to educate its young members.

"Much has been made of an apparent recent decline in the illegal poisoning of Scotland's birds of prey, but this, and other recent criminal incidents, show that efforts to stamp out the illegal persecution of strictly protected wildlife have a considerable way to go".

The constituency had a considerable German element, descendants of refugees who had escaped persecution in the German Empire.

Although there has been a considerable amount of reports, media coverage and scholarly debates about the marginalization, discrimination and persecution of minorities such as the Baha'i community in the Islamic Republic of Iran, one of the less discussed minority groups that has received scant attention is the Arab ethnic group living in the country.

While the killing and persecution of local rights activists is often met with impunity, Hall's case has drawn considerable international attention.