Sentence examples for persecution before from inspiring English sources

"Our situation is very bad... we have had persecution before, but not like this," Warduni said.

Already devastated by the loss of his wife, Ralph endured months of persecution before the action was dropped.

When he was released, Karikalan fled Sri Lanka for India, where he faced further persecution, before boarding a boat to Australia.

God knows, there was plenty of conflict and persecution before, after, and in between (even if religious minorities — e.g., Jews — fared better, on the whole, under Muslim than under Christian rule).

We want people to be able to go home and lead secure lives, not to fear revenge and persecution". Before the restrictions Iraqis who moved to Syria were allowed to stay for three months.

That case, Kiyemba v. Obama, was an appeal brought by a group of Uighurs, Chinese Muslims who had taken refuge in Afghanistan from Chinese persecution before 9/11 and who were sold for a bounty to the United States military in the chaos that followed.

Le Chambon, high in the mountains near Lyon, had a tradition of sheltering refugees from persecution even before the war, and during the conflict it became a centre for those trying to escape.

But Armenians had been forbidden from owning weapons for hundreds of years and were the victims of religious persecution well before the 20th-century genocide.

Years of persecution continued, however, before they received full civil rights in 1848.

They had been forced to flee to Switzerland to escape Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews before arriving in London.

Chen labeled himself a victim of political persecution and, even before the court proceedings got under way, stated that the verdict and sentence had been "already determined".