Sentence examples for sustained persecution from inspiring English sources

Christians in Wenzhou have not seen such sustained persecution since the Cultural Revolution.

Ms. Ni, who received a law degree from the China University of Political Science and Law, is not as well known internationally as some Chinese dissidents, but she has been the target of "sustained police persecution" for the past decade, according to Chinese Human Rights Defenders, an organization based in Hong Kong.

Sentencing all seven, Mr Justice Butterfield called the campaign "urban terrorism" and a "relentless, sustained and merciless persecution" that had made the victims' lives "a living hell".

And while Muslim-Christian violence and terrorist bombings have faded, the small Ahmadiyya minority has faced a sustained campaign of persecution.

The buzzard has full legal protection and is making a sustained recovery after years of persecution and pesticide poisoning.

The suppression of an independent Catholic hierarchy may not be as dreadful as the sustained and savage campaigns of persecution against the Buddhists of Tibet and the Muslims of Xinjiang, but is part of a general trend.

That story sustained Jews through centuries of persecution.

And it's persisted because we've continued to refine and perfect rituals like the seder that have stood the test of millenia and sustained our people in the face of challenges from displacement and persecution, pogroms and holocausts.

The democrats who endured decades of persecution, the church leaders who kept alive respect for human rights and liberty and the common people who sustained an insurrection against the terror of the Tontons Macoute should not be easily written off.

Persecution and the Art of Secrecy Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.

Diasporas have sustained us.