Sentence examples for much persecuted from inspiring English sources

Peyotism has been much persecuted.

This new production by Youth on Target Theater Company is drawn from the Italian tradition, in which Cinderella's mother is very much alive, and Cinderella is not so much persecuted as immobilized by grief.

Willard is a lonely, stuttering, shy boy, much persecuted by mother and boss, who befriends the rats in his basement and who, after one brutish insult too many from Ermy, trains them as his private creeping, gnawing army.

Bower is a man with so much support behind him that we don't need to get our handkerchiefs out: however much he is persecuted by the state and its bully boys, he is unlikely ever to end up reduced to street-sweeping like a Soviet-style Czech dissident.

Mr Abbott appeared to squash that idea, saying: "Some Muslim people are very much members of persecuted minorities... There's Druze, there's [Iraqi] Turkmen, there's Yazidi.

A17 Redefining China's Dissidents As China has edged toward more pluralism and openness in recent years, that much celebrated and persecuted class -- dissidents -- has struggled to redefine its role in a society where once-radical ideas are increasingly mainstream.

"No book has been persecuted as much or loved as much.

The Soviets tolerated a Russian Orthodox Church, as long as it toed the Kremlin line, but they persecuted pretty much every other religion, including evangelical Christianity.

On Burma's newly uncensored Internet forums, bloggers poured rage on the Rohingya — a stateless people who are persecuted in Asia, much like the Roma in Europe — calling them terrorists, bandits, and dogs.

Turns out it's the International Year of the Bat and this safari is part of a drive to raise awareness of a much maligned, misunderstood and often persecuted small mammal.

Child pornography producers and consumers are similarly persecuted, though clearly with much more sound reasons.