Sentence examples for petty harassment from inspiring English sources

Tales of petty harassment, abuse and humiliation were commonplace.

The gap between official policy and the petty harassment and bullying that actually occurs is wide.

Although Mr. Lieberman escaped harm, some of the students were beaten, others were jailed, and almost all endured petty harassment.

I only lasted a year; the hard work, difficult living situations and most of all the petty harassment from the other boys finally wore me down.

Several of the FN mayors elected in 2014, notably David Rachline in Fréjus and Robert Ménard in Beziers, have pursued a campaign of petty harassment and denigration of their local Muslim populations.

To do this on the street is against municipal rules, just one of the many ways in which China's migrants, in particular, daily face petty harassment, and often worse, from the authorities.

Adult Gibraltarians remember the Franco years, the vindictive closure of the border from 1969 until the 1980s, and the ongoing petty harassments inflicted by Madrid governments.

(The roads, which are patrolled by the Israeli Army, make it difficult for Palestinians to travel between their own cities; they not infrequently must endure the inexplicable delays and petty harassments of multiple Israeli checkpoints).

Herminia Serrat describes the "crude reality" of life for many nannies, housekeepers and caregivers for the elderly as a stoic struggle marked by long hours, meager or stolen wages, social isolation and a full range of unchecked employer abuses, from petty verbal harassment to physical and sexual assault.

A mere check of the biracial designation on his census form would not spare Obama from any of the routine petty racial harassments and annoyances -- the subtle and outright forms of discrimination.

Frequently public authorities including the police, health, housing and social services had done little to tackle harassment and petty crimes against the victims which then escalated into more serious assaults.