Sentence examples for ruthless persecution from inspiring English sources

Pacifist Christian sects were often the objects of the most ruthless persecution in a time period stretching from the Middle Ages to the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.

One of the most important symbols of Iranian irresponsibility today is its ruthless persecution of religious minorities.

What he won't mention, and what most in the room would rather not think about, is the growing number of Muslims who are victims of the U.S government's ruthless persecution of Muslims that includes spying, torture, and unfair trials.

It's his updating of what a German historian of the post-World War I period and the Stab in the Back myth described as the reactionary construction of events: "A morass of corruption, degeneracy, national humiliation, and ruthless persecution of the honest 'national opposition.'".

Among the ruthless persecutions that pass for ordinary life in Iran, two, added to the list today, are especially outrageous: the sentences handed down by a court today (as reported by the Associated Press) to the directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasulov for their support of the opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi in last year's presidential election.

Despite ruthless government persecution, Ch'ŏndogyo took deep root in the peasantry.

The one question the sergeant had a tough time answering is, how does one go overseas and fight to liberate Muslims, and others, from ruthless tyranny and persecution, then return home and support a guy whose mission it is to send them all back where they came from?

Close to 100,000 Jews from across Europe fled to our shores in search of a better life and safety from the persecution of ruthless dictators.

Indeed Yazidis suffered persecution, he said, such that one ruthless potentate who controlled the nearby splendid city of Mosul in the 13th century ordered an early Yazidi saint executed.

In these jungle base camps, until as recently as this year, Thai fishing boats provided a lucrative secondary revenue stream for the highly organised and ruthless criminal gangs profiting from the plight of the stateless Rohingya people fleeing persecution and violence in Burma.

A ruthless ruler, Galerius imposed the poll tax on the urban population and maintained the persecution of the Christians.