Sentence examples for largest persecuted from inspiring English sources

And at this point, as if he needs to pull his own story back – like grounding a kite to relaunch it – he explains that he is a Hazara (like Hassan, hero of Hosseini's novel) from the country's third largest – persecuted – ethnic group.

Christians and Buddhists who had not already fled to the South were persecuted in large numbers, and many were killed.

It might be tempting to cast this move as open "provocation" towards Russia, but it is less so if you visit Riga's Museum of Occupations, where one small nation's history of being invaded and persecuted by large powers (Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) is vividly recounted.

For hundreds of years, the largest land mammal on earth has been persecuted to almost the point of extinction by its greatest enemy- man.

The ruling addresses a question long debated by legal experts and human rights groups: Why was the large-scale killing of Muslims in one part of Bosnia — in and around Srebrenica — considered genocide, while the actions in other parts of Bosnia, where even larger numbers of civilians were deported, raped, persecuted and killed, were not?

When what makes you feel good and safe at home becomes what makes you feel bad and persecuted in the culture at large, it causes mixed feelings about the self and one's own culture.

There is a large divide between the American church and the persecuted church.

Katsav, president from 2000 to 2007, said he was innocent and was being persecuted by the courts and Israeli society at large.

Mr. Hussein's government persecuted the Shiites and Kurds, often torturing and killing large groups of them.

"I am concerned the birthplace of Christianity, the parts of the world where Christianity first spread, is now seeing large sections of the Christian community leaving and those that are remaining feeling persecuted," she told Radio 4's Today.

"One in 10 Christians live in a minority situation and large numbers of those who live in a minority situation around the world are persecuted".