Sentence examples for have persecuted from inspiring English sources

Sometimes they have failed to protect citizens; at other times they have persecuted them.

He controls the security forces that have persecuted and brutalized political opponents.

If you were a victim you would think: they have persecuted, abused and dispossessed me.

We have persecuted dissenters, interned the innocent, suspended habeas corpus, invaded reasonable expectations of privacy.

It is therefore, quite natural that the churches have always fought against science, and have persecuted its supporters.

We also bar applicants from asylum if they have committed certain crimes, are terrorists or have persecuted others.

For years it has persecuted its Rohingya minority.

In a 1997 speech, he said America had "persecuted" him.

Henry had persecuted English Protestants until the row over the annulment.

He was a good administrator and is noteworthy for having persecuted neither pagans nor Arians.

The Roman emperor Diocletian had persecuted the Christians, and many bishops and priests had collaborated with the regime.