The phrase "direct persecution" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to unjust or oppressive treatment against a group or individual in a direct or explicit way. For example: "The local government has been accused of direct persecution against members of the LGBTQ+ community."
Unfortunately, the greatest threat to Harpy Eagles is direct persecution.
About 75% of the breeding failures occurred during incubation, and 71% were related to human activities and direct persecution.
The main threats for Baird's tapir are the direct persecution for subsistence hunting, habitat destruction, and habitat fragmentation.
Further decline in the breeding population was probably stopped by creating artificial feeding sites and protecting the last nesting sites from direct persecution.
Although the Harpy Eagle is not considered to be threatened, due to its extensive distribution, its populations are in decline due to habitat loss and to direct persecution.
Our results suggest that in the absence of direct persecution of snow leopards, livestock grazing and snow leopard habitat use are potentially compatible up to a certain threshold of livestock density, beyond which habitat use declines, presumably due to depressed wild ungulate abundance and associated anthropogenic disturbance.
But he said he has been encouraged that a growing number of bishops appear to be joining the campaign for religious freedom that has targeted White House policies on contraception coverage, because he believes that Christians in the U.S. could well face direct governmental persecution for their beliefs.
(The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees distinguishes between "refugees," people who face a direct threat of persecution or death, and "migrants," but the difference is not always clear-cut).
"It should be a matter not of taking the sugar off the table but of trying to put the sugar out of reach except to those in direct flight from persecution, and leaving the sugar available to those who manage to reach the table whether by plane or boat, with or without a visa," Mr. Brennan wrote.
Most people don't realize how narrow the criteria are: To qualify for asylum, you usually have to be at direct risk of persecution or death.
Most people don't realise how narrow the criterium is: to qualify for asylum, you usually have to be at direct risk of persecution or death.
