Sentence examples for it was persecution from inspiring English sources

This is partly to be welcomed: no country should feel obligated to host migrants who travel out of economic aspiration, but make the false claim, on arrival, that it was persecution that drove them from their homeland.

It was persecution.

"It was persecution on me, unrightly," he added.

This is not prosecution, it's persecution".

It is persecution complex as motivational technique.

He questioned whether Mr. Filin had actually been attacked with acid and said that Bolshoi administrators had immediately implicated him, adding, "It's persecution, and it's all being done not against Sergei; it's all being done against me".

It's a right when they do it, it's persecution when you do.

Whether this impact is severe and obvious or more insidiously subtle it is persecution nonetheless.

It's like, 'government buildings let Pride put up their flag, if they don't let us put up ours then it's persecution.'".

To the French right it was political persecution and a plot to undermine Nicolas Sarkozy's eventual return to power.

As important as the recent archival disclosures about Communist espionage may be, Ybarra's painstakingly drawn study of this dyspeptic, power-hungry titan -- driven by hatreds and resentments and driving the nation's legislative agenda -- shows that it was gratuitous persecutions at home, waged in the name of the hunt for those spies, that sowed panic, ruined lives and stained America indelibly.