Sentence examples for she was persecuted from inspiring English sources

She has claimed that she fled Uganda when she was persecuted for having a lesbian relationship.

A century ago, she was persecuted for this by the government, the churches, and many of her fellow citizens.

(He felt, with reason, that she was persecuted by the Babbitts and official bullies of Los Angeles).

"I have never met my grandmother because she was persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution," he said in a speech at Peking University in 2009.

After the Taliban took over Paktika Province, where she lived with her husband's family, she was persecuted and whipped for refusing to wear a burqa and was ultimately sentenced to death by the Taliban.

Attorney General John Ashcroft has declined to intervene in an immigration case for a Guatemalan seeking asylum in the United States on the ground that she was persecuted because of her sex.

"She is persecuted," he said.

She is persecuted by the other workers, who have "nothin' to hide and I got something to hide here called desire.

In the opening scenes of the stupefying comedy "You Again," she is persecuted and branded a loser by Joanna (Odette Yustman), a bullying alpha girl, and her fellow cheerleaders.

The first time a lesbian was portrayed on network television was the NBC drama The Eleventh Hour in the early 1960s, in a teleplay about an actress who feels she is persecuted by her female director, and in distress, calls a psychiatrist who explains she is a latent lesbian who has deep-rooted guilt about her feelings for women.

Making your way through the show, you meet people like Yeshey Pelzom, a college-educated refugee from Bhutan who was persecuted after she married a man from a minority ethnic and religious group.