Sentence examples for persecutes an from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Mr. Greenspan has particular fun with the bad egg Grace and her cool viciousness, which extends to persecuting an impertinent telephone operator in one of the play's odder byways.

Before the trial, he turned himself into a C-list celebrity, appearing regularly on reality and talk shows, where he claimed that he had done nothing wrong and ripped into federal authorities for persecuting an innocent man.

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 Jesus I worship is not likely to collaborate with those who vilify and persecute an already oppressed minority.

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.