Nevertheless, persecution failed to stem the growing spiritual movement, and the empire finally legalized Christianity under Constantine I, though the new alliance with the state set the stage for schisms within the church.
Galerius rescinded the edict in 311, announcing that the persecution had failed to bring Christians back to traditional religion.
"Alaska's many-decades program of statewide carnivore persecution has failed to yield more ungulates for human hunters," the letter states.
The persecution of and political indifference shown toward Aboriginal people failed to extinguish their culture; inevitably "land rights" became the rallying cry of a political movement accompanying a highly publicized revival of the Aboriginal community.
My mother had already had a storybook life – a childhood in Baghdad, persecution, prison, a failed escape across the mountains of Kurdistan, a real escape to London and a whirlwind romance with my father.
HOI AN, VIETNAM — After the war and failed flight overseas, after her father's persecution and the knowledge of hunger, it was the miracle of the crispy pancake that changed things for Trinh Diem Vy.
The caper failed, but it understandably enhanced his paranoia; his delusions of grandeur were joined by delusions of persecution.
The Kulturkampf failed to achieve its goals and, if anything, convinced the Catholic minority that their fear of persecution was real.
And coalition promises to overhaul the asylum process for gay applicants and reduce homophobic persecution abroad have failed to materialise.
Yet these groups have failed to make an impression on the public with any significant condemnations of the persecution of Christians, Jews and Hindus in Pakistan, Sudan and other countries under Muslim law.
