Sentence examples for vicious persecution from inspiring English sources

The appearance of the posters was often the prelude to more vicious persecution.

The Ikhwan is far from smugly comfortable following their sweep of Egypt's elections, even after decades of sporadic but often vicious persecution.

Throughout the war, this small community suffered vicious persecution, but its members have also been protagonists in some of the worst bouts of violence.

She remembers the vicious persecution of her teachers, the lynching of suspected class enemies, the hysterical mass rallies, and how Red Guards roamed Beijing, setting upon those with supposedly counter-revolutionary footwear, clothing or hair.

"Never again" was the spirit that propelled the UDHR into being, but the world has time and time again ignored its values and plunged into war crimes, systematic killings, vicious persecution and even genocide.

The vicious persecution of clergy and the destruction of churches in the Soviet Union is not an issue most Russians take lightly – which is part of the reason why the original outcry against the group gained such momentum in Russia.

And he wrote this book for one reason only: to counsel Christians to hold fast to their faith, even in the face of the most vicious persecutions.

Christians and Jews are also banding together, as they combat the brutal persecution of Christians in the Middle East and North Africa and the vicious rise of anti-Semitism in Europe and elsewhere.

Arthur Bliss, Cornwall He presided over the expanded privatisation of the NHS; the destruction of the education system by Michael Gove; the vicious and vindictive persecution of the poor and needy under Ian Duncan Smith; the absurdly inept economic policy of George Osborne; and the obscene rise in house prices, particularly in London.

After the 1871 Criminal Tribes Act, a vicious cycle of persecution against transgenders began in the British India.

Maxwell Fyfe was a vicious homophobe, then organising the unprecedented national persecution of homosexuals; and it is curious that he went out of his way to get the cabinet (which was far from keen on the idea) to appoint a committee to examine the matter, chaired by the former public school headmaster John Wolfenden.