Sentence examples for persecuting the from inspiring English sources

Of all the New England colonies, Massachusetts was the most active in persecuting the Quakers, but the Plymouth, Connecticut and New Haven colonies also shared in their persecution.

There is a tradition of persecuting the Sinti.

Saddam has been persecuting the Kurds ever since he took power, more than twenty years ago.

Nicky Morgan is responding to a 'guilty' verdict by persecuting the accuser and protecting the wrongdoer.

"This has brought to mind when the Philistines were persecuting the Israelites".

The West has accused President Aleksandr Lukashenko of persecuting the opposition and crushing the free press.

Most had to do with not persecuting the "sans papiers," or undocumented.

He said the security services were in no way persecuting the opposition.

His critics say that by persecuting the Muslim Brotherhood he is providing Isis supporters with a new constituency.

In recent remarks Mr. Yanukovich and his senior ministers have denied that the government was persecuting the opposition.

Prior to 1965, the left, buttressed by the ascendancy of the Indonesian Communist party, were persecuting the right too.