Sentence examples for outright persecution from inspiring English sources

Growth brought publicity — and with it came not merely prejudice but outright persecution.

Rumours circulated of campaigning rigour tipping over into the outright persecution of vulnerable individuals.

"It's moving away from outright persecution or criminalization of gay people and their conduct to a more tolerant, but not gay friendly, public policy," he said.

According to David Alton, a crossbench peer who campaigns on religious freedom, "some assessments claim that as many as 200 million Christians in over 60 countries around the world face some degree of restriction, discrimination or outright persecution".

Another important element to emerge from the period of military rule, and perhaps even before, is the number of philosophers who moved abroad in response to political turmoil, like Roberto Torretti (1930) and Carla Cordua (1925), or because of outright persecution as in the case of Juan Rivano and Renato Cristi (1941).

Both say they didn't fight in the subsequent civil war, and neither mentions outright persecution during the Cultural Revolution.

Giga Bokeria, President Saakashvili's national security adviser, said the prosecution of the president's supporters gave a "clear picture of at best selective justice, or at worst outright political persecution".

Not surprisingly, this incipient fanaticism soon led from apparent toleration to outright suppression and persecution of Christians.

While many minorities suffer oppression, from disenfranchisement to outright discrimination to persecution, few minorities additionally experience such extreme degrees of intimidated relational repression during formative years as the LGBT community.

Although Catholics, Poles, homosexuals, Roma (Gypsies), and the handicapped were targeted for persecution, if not outright extermination, the Jews of Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union were by far the most numerous among the victims; in German-occupied Europe some six million Jews were killed during the war.

The object of persecution is persecution.