Sentence examples for persecutions to from inspiring English sources

The idea that powerful states and fanatical clergymen launched mass persecutions to suppress the peasantry (especially women) is generally false.

Significantly – and rarely – at no point during his discussion of these works does Haitink mention Stalin or explore the persecutions to which the composer was subject.

Bulgakov assumed it was a malicious trick of some kind – such things were common at that time, a grimly antic precursor of the persecutions to come – but when he picked up the handset he heard a voice say, "Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov?" and, when he affirmed this, "Comrade Stalin will talk to you now".

When Hitler moved against the Jews, he did not do so in the beginning with candid policies of murder: first, he wanted Jews to leave and launched persecutions to encourage them to leave; when not enough did, there was confinement to ghettoes; and when that didn't work, there was the "final solution"—extermination.

Her family was part of the Puritan "Great Migration" – under religious persecution – to "New England".

Now he is being demanded, under the threat of prosecution and persecution, to breach that trust".

The street artist Marcus Crocker has made tiny models of artists who fled persecution to mark the British Red Cross Refugee Weekk.

But this should be seen, he continued, in light of the "tyranny and persecution" to which they were subjected.

The 13 colonies, Waldman says, were indeed Christian polities, most of them indulging in persecution to uphold their ideals.

Mr. Chen's desperate escape last month from persecution to American protection has embarrassed China's leaders and cast new shadows on their commitment to the rule of law.

The controversial columnist has faced calls to apologise over a dehumanising comment piece that compared people fleeing war and persecution to cockroaches.