Sentence examples for enduring persecution from inspiring English sources

He adds that Ying's film "has a line that mentions Ai Weiwei," the artist who is enduring persecution in China.

Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, spent much of his life in Soviet prison camps, enduring persecution when he wrote about his experiences.

After enduring persecution and imprisonment for participation in noisy worship services, she had a series of revelations, after which she regarded herself and was so regarded by her followers as the female aspect of God's dual nature (e.g., male and female) and the second Incarnation of Christ.

The constituencies for each display a cult-like belief in their own superiority, combined with a self-flattering view of themselves as bravely enduring persecution and unfair victimization.

Galileo recanted and spent the rest of his life under house arrest, the enduring symbol of persecution of science by the church.

In 1965, edging toward the redemptive power of Jewish nationalism, Wiesel wrote "The Jews of Silence," a study of Soviet Jews living with enduring bigotry and persecution.

After two centuries of enduring intolerance and persecution, 200 Schwenkfelders left Silesia to seek refuge and a place to worship openly, traveling first to Saxony and then to the Netherlands, where they boarded ships for America.

Powers also commented on how "Born Free" mixed the boasting style often found in hip hop music with lines depicting the lives of those enduring poverty and persecution.

The many other Egyptian women who are enduring even more outrageous persecution are getting little attention for their plight.

Today would have been her seventy-fourth birthday; she died in Paris in 1979, of a seemingly intentional overdose, after enduring a decade of persecution by the American government.

My hero spent her teenage years enduring horrible treatment, and persecution that could have made her angry with the world but instead it made her message of love stronger.