Sentence examples for the persecuted from inspiring English sources

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the persecuted

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To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death for one's race, sexual identity, adherence to a particular religious creed, or mode of worship.

  • "Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." – Matt. 5:44.

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The powerful were now the persecuted.

THE Jewish state was founded as paradise for the persecuted.

Let Britain stand up for the displaced, the persecuted and the oppressed.

This novel surely belongs within that subgenre of Gothic literature associated with the persecuted woman.

"You have to stand side by side with the persecuted and the victims".

Some historians report that Ulfilas in about 375 helped the persecuted Christian Goths to cross the Danube into Roman territory.

The potential reckonings between the turncoats and the persecuted, the winners and the losers, appear innumerable and treacherous.

The persecuted are not an ethnic minority, or a racial group, or a religious sect; they simply had the "misfortune" of being born inside female bodies.

But "How to Be a Good Wife" is distinguished from the typical tale of the persecuted woman by its absence of Gothic shadows.

The persecuted church flourishes because of the resurrection".

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Jonas assigns applications to one of two piles, "the persecuted and not so persecuted".

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