Sentence examples for persecutions under from inspiring English sources

Beginning in February 303, the church faced the worst of all persecutions under the co-emperors Diocletian and Galerius.

By the time of the Christian persecutions under Nero and Domitian, mimes were used to ridicule the Christian faith on stage.

Lanny J. Davis (Op-Ed, March 3) echoes President Richard Nixon's ill-founded attacks on Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor, in likening Kenneth W. Starr's subpoenaing of Sidney Blumenthal to political persecutions under the Sedition Act.

The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser.

A group of bishops declared that "Gaul was immune" (immunis est Gallia) from the persecutions under Constantius.

Tatars living in Crimea experienced extreme persecution under Soviet rule.

Others feared persecution under the new communist regimes.

Many Huguenots fled religious persecution under Louis XIV, while others remained in France.

Convictions for raptor persecution under wildlife crime laws are extremely rare, despite evidence that it continues.

This is good news for Zimbabweans fleeing persecution under President Robert Mugabe's regime.

Mr. Havel, a playwright and former dissient, was often the target of persecution under Communist Governments.