Sentence examples for persecution her from inspiring English sources

The context for Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi today is that after years of persecution, her party is in disarray.

"Her father's death, her husband's persecution, her daughter's death – everything that happened made her suspicious of the Cultural Revolution … She was sick of [it]," said Zhang.

She followed this advice by explaining some of the persecution her group has faced, telling me that their founder was "put in prison for 175 years for preaching the gospel but they called it child abuse".

She joined the 1963 March on Washington, was on the frightening but now famous march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, the city of her notoriety and her persecution and, now, her glory.

Jemima J by Jane Green: a 'brilliantly funny, honest' peek into the life of Jemima Jones, seven stone overweight, in love with her colleague and under persecution from her THIN BITCH FLATMATES.

In 1987 Yellin reprinted Harriet Jacobs's 1861 autobiography, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," rediscovering Jacobs (1813-97), harrowingwing story of persecution and her flight to freedom.

She's been in the US since 2009, when she petitioned for political asylum on the grounds that she had faced persecution for her sexual orientation in her home country.

The detained wife of imprisoned Nobel peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo denounced the persecution of her family on Sunday as a Chinese court jailed her brother for 11 years.

Her halting, self-lacerating voice is painfully acute, such as when she ponders whether the persecution of her roommate is just a malicious dormitory prank or something much worse.

The move marks the latest step by Liu Xia to challenge the alleged persecution of her family.

Aderonke Apata Activist (41) The activist, a lesbian who fled persecution in her native Nigeria, now campaigns for LGBT asylum seekers to stay in the UK.