Sentence examples for persecuted before from inspiring English sources

Celebrities were persecuted before Jackson of course, but his eccentricity ensured that he was increasingly hounded – rarely was a dangled baby, damaged nose or, yes, child abuse story far from the headlines.

Savage mass murders continued on squares and boulevards throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, through the Commune and two world wars, the second of which saw tens of thousands of Jews persecuted before being sent to their deaths in concentration camps.

Christians were not persecuted even before the Assad family came to power – in the 1940s, Syria had a Christian prime minister.

A scientist who made some of the 20th century's most important breakthroughs in fields ranging from computing to molecular biology, before being persecuted for his homosexuality, Turing has been immortalised as the man who broke the Enigma code during the second world war.

Much of the Muslim world already felt persecuted by the West before the attacks, and Bush's unfortunate use of the word "crusade" immediately afterward has been remembered, while his and Tony Blair's many declarations that Islam is a religion of peace have been ignored or forgotten.

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.

It features five movies that portray the hardships and resilience of refugees around the globe, from orphaned children in a Kurdish camp on the Iraqi border in Turtles Can Fly, to a Cuban poet persecuted for his homosexuality in Before Night Falls.

Historically, brown bears were persecuted in Europe for centuries before their gradual elimination from much of Western Europe.

Because of these works he was persecuted and finally imprisoned shortly before his death.

Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you".

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.'" Pray for strength.