Sentence examples for level of persecution from inspiring English sources

The Taliban are Pashtun and have frequently raised this traditional discrimination to the level of persecution.

With Kristallnacht the Nazis ushered in a new level of persecution.

Those were among the fines and potential penalties that Judge Burman said rose to the level of persecution.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. pressed Mr. Negusie's lawyer, Andrew J. Pincus, to define what level of coercion might justify what level of persecution.

Hanks, describing what Berry and Nahla experience, calls it a "nearly criminal level of persecution," uniquely reserved for female stars and their children.

They also claim that the level of persecution is such that there is a new mood of sympathy for him and some recognition that the scrapes he has got himself into are the consequence of a loneliness exacerbated by his phenomenal professional achievement.Against that, with the admittedly important exception of the prime minister, Mr Blunkett is short of political friends these days.

There are some early signs that he may also be catching the attention of Christians in China, who continue to face varying levels of persecution.

It is thought the majority of the bodies are Rohingya Muslims fleeing either Burma, also known as Myanmar where they face varying levels of persecution, or Bangladesh.

In the run-up to Holocaust Memorial Day, the Lib Dem MP David Ward wrote of being "saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution in the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians".

Last week he said he was "saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza".

They risk new levels of persecution by the Russian authorities," said international legal counsel, Lorcan Price.