There is plenty of common ground to be found with right-wing Tory backbenchers and UKIP on issues like persecuting immigrants and getting out of the EU.
The judges created several legal hurdles for asylum seekers fleeing gangs, requiring them to prove that they are part of a "particular social group" that is widely recognized in their home society as being under attack, something like a persecuted ethnic minority.
I can hardly imagine, for instance, the late poet George Mackay Brown or the composer James MacMillan wishing to see me, and thousands like me, persecuted in this world or the next, either for being gay, or for failing to go along with all of their credo, despite their being deeply committed Roman Catholics.
Throughout, the symbolism of Jackson as a Christ-like figure – misunderstood, persecuted and snatched away from his fellow humans before his time – was subtle but unmistakable.
Father Burner and the older curate did not like cats and they persecuted Fritz.
A bereaved mother, brave and decent, harried by the legal system like a figure in a Kafka story, persecuted like Job, she lost her life to depression and drink.
A large part of the problem is that the person arguing with you plays on your shortcomings and enlarges them; while you're well aware that they're exaggerating things all out of proportion, there is just enough truth in what they're saying to make you feel defensive and want to retaliate because you hate feeling persecuted like this, or being made out to look like a fool.
Yet, these religious and law-abiding people, and others like them, were persecuted.
During the hearing, her landlord, Martin Eng, called the tenant jealous and racist, and said he was being persecuted "like Trayvon Martin".
Yet Sottsass quit Memphis in 1985: Ms. Radice said he felt "persecuted like a rock star" by the media frenzy around it.
