Sentence examples for was later persecuted from inspiring English sources

In The Imitation Game, Cumberbatch portrays Alan Turing, the computing pioneer who broke the Enigma code during World War Two, but was later persecuted by the British authorities for his homosexuality.

Keaton's is the only fictional character in a category dominated by biopics: Redmayne won a Golden Globe last weekend for his performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything; Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, the computing pioneer who cracked the German Enigma code, but was later persecuted by the British authorities for his homosexuality, in The Imitation Game.

(Mason's own great-grandmother and her family were incarcerated in a camp during the Boer War, and his parents were later persecuted for challenging apartheid).

Unlike his partners, Vandersteen was later not persecuted for his part in publishing the antisemitic drawings, which were considered collaboration with the Nazis.

She wrote: I can never shake my belief that I was being recruited, and later persecuted, by forces more powerful than I could have imagined.

Saul, or Paul (as he was later called), was a Pharisee who persecuted the primitive church.

Persecuted as an intellectual during the Cultural Revolution, Gao was forced to destroy his early writings and was later sent to a reeducation camp, where he endured nearly six years of hard labour.

Russians in Ukraine were not being persecuted.

You are not being persecuted.

Attention Christians: You are not being persecuted.

However, Buddhism would later be persecuted by the state and decline in influence.