Sentence examples for was persecuted from inspiring English sources

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was persecuted

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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.

  • "Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." – Matt. 5:44.

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My husband was persecuted after that.

After that, Manichaeism was persecuted and destroyed in Iran.

Who then could I complain to when I was persecuted?

Brik was persecuted through the 30s by the Soviet authorities.

Mr. Du was persecuted anew during the Cultural Revolution.

She has claimed that she fled Uganda when she was persecuted for having a lesbian relationship.

To which the wife indignantly retorts: "The entire country was persecuted".

His father was persecuted during the Stalinist purges, and was briefly arrested, though he survived.

Tells about his father's youth in Russia, where the family lived frugally & was persecuted.

In the Soviet era, the church was persecuted, and so supported by the intelligentsia.

Fields threatened a "top to bottom" review of the F.C.C. if Murdoch was persecuted further.

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