Sentence examples for persecuted of from inspiring English sources

But his support for students, women, minorities, and artists — what he called "the substratum of outcasts and outsiders, the exploited and the persecuted of other races and other colors, the unemployed and the unemployable" — was ahead of its time.

It's much harder to comprehend why this most critically feted – but, in his mind, persecuted – of performers often bars all media from his gigs, or at least denies reviewers tickets.

Today, all sorts of writers who seek to give witness are still persecuted, of course.

One law will be in the land for the persecuted of the entire world, whatever group: Armenian, Gypsy, Jew, homosexual, migrant, or a refugee from Rwanda, Cambodia, or Palestine.

Mbaye is convinced that Abeid is being persecuted "on account of his campaigning".

No one benefits from being tortured or persecuted on account of their religion or sexuality.

If this sounds like an exaggeration, in Albania the church (and Islam, too) was persecuted out of existence after 1967.

Now, he wants American leaders to pledge to do more to safeguard the rights of persecuted minorities of all faiths.

In other words, "Persecution of minorities reduces not only the long-term wealth of the persecuted, but of the persecutors as well".* "Distrust in finance lingers: Jewish persecution and households' investments" by Francesco D'Acunto, Marcel Prokopczuk and Michael Weber.

The United States grants asylum to people with a well-founded fear of being persecuted because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or social group.

On Easter he prayed that God would alleviate ''the suffering of so many of our brothers persecuted because of his name".