Sentence examples for were exiled for from inspiring English sources

He came of age in the shadow of imperial oppression; his parents were exiled for political activism.

Writers were executed; some were exiled for slave labor; and, in 1942, hundreds of thousands of ghetto residents were deported to death camps.

Mifflin, a staunch Quaker from Virginia, traveled several thousand miles by horse during the Revolution to buoy the spirits of other Quakers, who were exiled for their passivism during the war.

The war took a heavy toll on the Athenian political and military elite: a majority were killed or executed on campaign, died of wounds, or (like Pericles) of the plague that swept through overcrowded Athens, or were exiled for failure.

Kalmykiya was established in 1920 as an autonomous oblast (region); in 1936 it became a republic, which was abolished in 1944 when the Kalmyks were exiled for alleged collaboration with the Germans.

Indeed, when its fortifications were finally relaxed during the late 18th century, it was seized by the French and stripped of its treasures, and fell into decline, while the Grimaldi were exiled for over 20 years.

In 39 he was exiled for adultery with them.

After his release, he was exiled for another 21 years.

He was exiled for five years to Siberia.

His rule was overthrown in 1867, and he was exiled for two years.

He says, "I am definitely going back, I refuse to be exiled for a lie".