Sentence examples for was persecuting from inspiring English sources

By the mid-1950s, "I knew the communist regime was persecuting innocent people".

In recent remarks Mr. Yanukovich and his senior ministers have denied that the government was persecuting the opposition.

When the medieval Catholic church was persecuting Galileo and Copernicus, it was doing so in the name of an Aristotelian view of the universe.

It emerged that Thornton was arrested twice and later convicted for disorderly conduct for outbursts at two council meetings in 2006, convinced the city was persecuting him.

Moreover, the provinces initially overrun, Syria (636) and Egypt (641), were already alienated from the Byzantine government that was persecuting Monophysites in those areas.

Some commentators suggest that 666 is a coded reference to the Roman emperor Nero, who was persecuting Christians at the time the Biblical book was written.

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.