Dictionary
to persecuting
verb
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.
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Demonizing someone is a necessary first step to persecuting him.
Mrs. Plavsic pleaded guilty to persecuting Muslims and Croats during the Bosnian war, a crime against humanity.
Mr. Greenspan has particular fun with the bad egg Grace and her cool viciousness, which extends to persecuting an impertinent telephone operator in one of the play's odder byways.
In addition to persecuting the Kurds, Mr. Hussein's government forced them to flee Kirkuk, the center of an oil-rich area, and moved in Arabs to take their place.
War crimes prosecutors dropped charges of genocide against the Serb who commanded a notorious prison camp in the Bosnian war after he agreed to plead guilty to persecuting Muslims and Croats.
Momir Nikolic, who pleaded guilty in May to persecuting non-Serbs in Europe's worst atrocity since World War II, wept and covered his face with his hands on hearing the judgment.
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Even so, Licinius began to persecute Christians.
"It's all prosecution to persecute," Mr. Chamisa said.
Karzai promised not to persecute former Taliban who stopped fighting, and he has kept his word.
Charges of blasphemy are frequently used to persecute non-Muslims and members of minority Islamic sects.
If the authorities were seen to persecute Mr Erdogan, his support might grow.
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