Sentence examples for persecution up from inspiring English sources

The FSB's invisible presence continued; the agency became an intangible part of my Moscow life – sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, with someone in a back room clearly turning the volume of minor persecution up and down.

"I understand the number of officials and policemen who participate in my persecution adds up to some 100 people".

Many Jews who had fled Slonim in the early 20th century to escape persecution ended up on the Lower East Side, and many of them prayed at the Congregation Anshe Slonim ("People of Slonim"), which in 1921 moved into 172 Norfolk Street.

The 162 cases reported since Dec. 20, 2013, therefore represent an increase in persecution of up to 19 times compared with previous years, an increase that can only be laid at the door of the Anti-Homosexuality Act and the virulently homophobic atmosphere it has engendered in Uganda.

Grant us the courage to stop all forms of persecution, to speak up on behalf of the persecuted, and to rectify historic injustices.

The assumption is that people genuinely in fear of persecution will put up with these restrictions, while economic migrants might be deterred.Cutting bogus claims should help to process claims faster.

Like many Jews tired of tsarist persecution he pulled up roots and came to New York to join a community that has probably done most to provide America with its culture.

Both her parents had suffered from persecution; Shifra grew up in a German orphanage, having witnessed her own mother being killed in a pogrom in Odessa, and many of Menachem's relatives were later shot by Nazis in Poland.

The ACN's report says that in the past two years, the number of countries in which Christians suffered extreme persecution was 10, up from six in the period covered by its previous report.

People fleeing conflict or persecution often end up in a neighbouring country - but many do not want to settle there permanently.

Moreover, any rejection of their view is explained away as persecution for standing up for right versus wrong.