Sentence examples for her persecution from inspiring English sources

She believes that it's her commitment to opposition politics that has led to her persecution.

She was known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants in a vain attempt to restore Roman Catholicism in England.

Second, though it was a group of individuals who killed Jean McConville, it is society that condoned her persecution in life and afterwards.

She joined the 1963 March on Washington, was on the frightening but now famous march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, the city of her notoriety and her persecution and, now, her glory.

Heda Margolius Kovaly, a Czech writer and translator whose memoir, "Under a Cruel Star," described her imprisonment by the Nazis during World War II and her persecution by the Communists in the 1950s and became a classic account of life under totalitarianism, died on Sunday at her home in Prague.

The third feature film of the German director Angelina Maccarone, "Unveiled" tells the story of an Iranian translator, Fariba Jasmin Tabatabaii), who flees her homeland after falling in love with a married woman, only to be refused asylum in Germany on the grounds that her persecution is not political in nature.

"Her father's death, her husband's persecution, her daughter's death – everything that happened made her suspicious of the Cultural Revolution … She was sick of [it]," said Zhang.

It would be easy to chalk up Stein's endorsement of Pétain to her gratitude toward Faÿ, who shielded her from persecution during the war (Stein and Toklas, both Jews, stayed out of the capital and in the countryside throughout the fighting), or to her political cunning.

He married Litzi Friedman, a fellow activist and an Austrian Jew, to help her escape persecution.

It is a disturbing effect, strangely reminiscent of her own persecution.

She also recalls how fiercely he defended her from persecution from the guards who routinely harassed transsexuals.