Sentence examples similar to day persecution from inspiring English sources

And this, the story of modern-day persecution, is better than the movie; let's hope for a sequel (when it comes to Mob movies, there is, after all, a precedent for the sequel improving on the original).

'A Poppy Seed Purim' (Sunday) Persecution isn't usually a laughing matter.

This time in the form of film called "Call Me Kuchu," a documentary by Malika Zouhall-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright, opening this month, which tells the story of the present-day persecution of LGBT people, or "kuchus," in Uganda.

As a result of my work and travels in Central and Eastern Europe as a klezmer musician, I have become acutely aware of not only the cultural significance of the Roma, but also their historical and present-day persecution.

After reflecting upon the life and suffering of Jesus, Pope Francis spoke of the present-day persecution of Christians in parts of the Middle East and Africa in the hands of groups such as Isis, Boko Haram and al-Qaeda.

The Holocaust — the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of European Jews (and certain communities of North African Jews in European controlled North Africa) and other minority groups of Europe during World War II by Germany and its collaborators remains the most notable modern-day persecution of Jews.

There was a hint of that sense of persecution Friday.

A Czech doctors' organization apologized to Jewish doctors Thursday for the persecution they endured in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, an official of the organization said.

Starting on Saturday, people fleeing persecution can be barred from the asylum process if they do not approach the border at designated border checkpoints.

A Burmese human rights group said on Tuesday that the persecution of Muslims in the Buddhist-majority state had grown in the last five years and extended beyond Rohingya people to include the creation of "Muslim-free zones" across the country.

That novel, "Barbary Shore," which received nearly unanimously hostile reviews, is a work of majestically involuted paranoia, playing like early Dostoyevsky among Brooklyn Communists; it's a sort of high-voltage response to the day's McCarthyite persecutions, but it hardly seems to touch the pavement where it's set.