Sentence examples for degree of persecution from inspiring English sources

The group said the intensity of its military actions varied with the degree of persecution of Kurds within Iran.

He was subjected to a degree of persecution, some of it simply small-minded, some of it quite chilling.

Again, while Mr. Snowden's motives may have been political, the Handbook requires balancing the nature of the offense committed and the degree of persecution feared.

Even the evangelical organization Open Doors' worldwide watch list of Christian persecution, which Allen refers to ad infinitum, lists Colombia as the sole nation in the Western Hemisphere in which Christians suffer some degree of persecution ("moderate" according to Open Doors).

While wolves have experienced various degrees of persecution and exploitation from humans during the last centuries, potentially selecting for greater neophobia (Fritts, Stephenson, Hayes, & Boitani, 2003), dogs have undergone the opposite selection through the domestication process (Clutton-Brock, 1995; Hare & Tomasello, 2005; Thorne, 1995).

I don't want to overstate the degree of censorship and persecution that people have suffered by daring to invoke group selection.

"In numerical terms at least, though not in degree, the persecution of Christians in this region dwarfs what is happening in the Middle East," the report said.

Although he praised their "sublime" poetry and claimed that the "Jewish race" contained "imagination, romance, loyalty, probity and humanity in an exceptional degree", he also thought that centuries of persecution had led some Jews to exhibit "avarice, servility, falseness, cunning and the rest".

According to David Alton, a crossbench peer who campaigns on religious freedom, "some assessments claim that as many as 200 million Christians in over 60 countries around the world face some degree of restriction, discrimination or outright persecution".

Groups falling outside the state-administered religions, including "underground" or "house church" Christians, are subject to varying degrees of repression and persecution.

The object of persecution is persecution.