Sentence examples for was persecuted because from inspiring English sources

Pemberton's "loyalty, his capacity, his fidelity" were all questioned and he was persecuted because he had been born in Pennsylvania.

But the judge and board rejected arguments that Mr. Hernandez-Montiel was persecuted because of membership in a particular group.

He was persecuted because they sensed his power, and I think it was not religion but a class thing.

Mr. Smejkal, 54, grew up poor in Communist Czechoslovakia, where, he said, his father was persecuted because of his fervent Christian faith.

Attorney General John Ashcroft has declined to intervene in an immigration case for a Guatemalan seeking asylum in the United States on the ground that she was persecuted because of her sex.

As a result of his mighty explanatory initiative, Galileo was persecuted, because he made the very theoretical and abstract announcement that the Earth revolved around the sun.

Her supporters say she has been persecuted because of her religion.

They left the Soviet Union, Mrs. Polezhayev said, because they were "persecuted" because of her Jewish roots.

Sikhs are being persecuted because of their faith - and the media is completely ignoring their plight, according to campaigners.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service has occasionally granted asylum to foreigners who claimed they were persecuted because of their sexual orientation.

In 2007, International PEN monitored the cases of more than one thousand writers who were persecuted because of their writing.