Sentence examples for persecuted a from inspiring English sources
Under prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, Sunni Iraqis were marginalised and persecuted – a sectarian crackdown now credited with fuelling the rise of Islamic State, many of whose commanders and fighters are Sunnis purged from the US-trained Iraqi army.
He portrays him as misunderstood and persecuted, a victim of jingoism and racism, but also overbearing and self-involved, a man who acted unwisely (and whose wife did, too), in ways that might well be viewed with suspicion.
Over the past two decades, politics in Myanmar have unfolded with a good-and-evil storyline fit for Hollywood: a brutal military government has persecuted a democratic opposition movement led by a pretty and charming freedom fighter, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize who until last month was under house arrest.
His persecuted a distant cousin, Æthelbald, the grandson of Penda's brother Eowa.
One side insisted he was a hero for truth and justice, a defender of the oppressed and persecuted, a champion of what is good about America.
Mr. Ruml also became a member of the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Persecuted, a dissident organization, in 1978, monitoring Communist persecution and rights abuses.
Each year corrupt politicians steal over 500 billion pesos [£19.2 billion] and only those who don't have money to buy their innocence or who no longer serves purpose are persecuted an punished".
The action against Mr. Egan gives the appearance, perhaps inadvertently, that the agency is persecuting a longstanding critic of the ratings agencies.
Why is it OK to hint at highly sexualised nudity all day long and then persecute a normal man for getting naked as he goes about his business?
The truth is that it is mainly "patriotic" men who rally around the burqa ban, viewing it as a legitimate reason to persecute a religious minority.
That's right: persecute a people with enough savagery and they will in the end unite, rise up, fight and go their own way.
