Sentence examples for they persecuting from inspiring English sources

"Why are they persecuting him?

Snowden, the Venezuelan declared, "has a right to protection because the United States in its actions is persecuting him.... Why are they persecuting him?

Exactly how were they persecuted?

Why were they persecuted?

"They persecute and torture people, under the guise of a false religion," he said.

Father Burner and the older curate did not like cats and they persecuted Fritz.

They persecute me because I'm dangerous, because I fight for you".

Calling an entire ethnic group "stubborn" and saying that they "persecute Christians" is hardly objectionable; it is wrong.

Similarly, like other emigrants, they persecuted native Americans, exterminated aborigines, stole land, defrauded their partners, exploited their workers and happily traded in opium.

The Soviets tolerated a Russian Orthodox Church, as long as it toed the Kremlin line, but they persecuted pretty much every other religion, including evangelical Christianity.

They intimidate, they jail, they persecute parents who demand the truth, and they brazenly stomp on the constitution and the basic rights of man".