Sentence examples for persecutes a from inspiring English sources

Looking for subjects of his own to tyrannize, he tries to ban his mother from speaking German in the kitchen, and persecutes a stray dog to the point of almost drowning it.

"What Hussein does," says a prominent Iraqi who now lives outside the country but requests anonymity to protect his family still inside the country, "is to 'investigate' families 'to the fourth degree,'" meaning the government persecutes a family out to the fourth cousin.

Brian De Palma's "Redacted," focusing on an Army squad that persecutes an Iraqi family, is to be released in December by Magnolia Pictures.

In the movie's funniest scene, she feigns wild, noisy sex with Brandon Dan Byrdd), a persecuted gay student, at a party at which the guests crowd around the door to listen to their faked S-and-M high jinks.

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.

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.

Often, the wreckers found ways to justify this activity on religious grounds; from that twisted logic, Smyth and her librettist, Henry Brewster, spun a tale of criminal fanaticism in which villagers persecute a young fisherman who attempts to warn passing vessels.

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.