Sentence examples for continued to persecute from inspiring English sources

Yet despite the lofty rhetoric, the police have continued to persecute Ali's family.

Christian authorities continued to persecute them, and by 1614 the last of an estimated 3,000,000 Spanish Muslims had been expelled from the peninsula.

Though fundamentalist and authoritarian regimes continued to persecute writers, three Iranian women, two of them living in exile in Sweden, enjoyed literary success.

Even after that dubious victory, it continued to persecute the charismatic opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, who in February was sentenced to five years on trumped-up charges of sodomy.

Opponents of the bill, backed by prominent human rights and veterans' groups, said it was wrong to have normal trade relations with Vietnam while its government continued to persecute political opponents, religious leaders and ethnic minorities.

Massachusetts continued to persecute Hutchinson's followers who stayed in the Boston area.

Today, poachers across Africa and Asia continue to persecute elephants for their tusks- which now have a value of around £40,000 each.

But even today low-income, deeply religious communities continue to persecute their children for the same "reasons" they did in this amazing revolutionary film.

The Israeli authorities continue to persecute Mordechai Vanunu, the man who revealed the country's nuclear secrets in the Sunday Times 21 years ago.

WrongThe party says Chinese interpretations of such notions as human rights are different from those in the West, and continues to persecute dissidents, Christians (see article) and other trouble-makers.

International pressure forced Djotodia to step down in January and soon the Seleka, who once strutted confidently about the capital, were retreating north where they continue to persecute Christians.