Sentence examples for were persecuted with from inspiring English sources

During World War II, both Serbs and Jews were persecuted with equal savagery by the puppet Nazi regime in Croatia and placed in the same concentration camps.

Such progressive ideas hardly governed the actual treatment of gay men, who were persecuted with increasing vigor in the 19th century as sexual policing continued to shift away from what was unbiblical to what was "unnatural".

Germans in Poland are persecuted with bloody terror and driven from their houses.

White House officials say the stop is in part a show of solidarity with Middle Eastern Christians who have been persecuted with the rise of Islamist parties.

Muslims are persecuted with endlessly evolving creativity.

Some populist histories chose to forget they were persecuted, along with homosexuals, the disabled, Gypsies, trade unionists and leftists.

During Mao's Cultural Revolution, books were burned, Chinese art was destroyed, temples and monasteries were smashed, capitalists were persecuted and contact with much of the outside world was severed.

"To the myth of the 'pink triangle' — the notion that all homosexuals in Nazi Germany were persecuted — we must respond with the reality of the 'pink swastika.'".

In the same month Mr Fry joined a campaign to rewrite history for the 49,000 British men who were persecuted for being gay along with Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing.

"I regard it as very sad that people who struggled to ensure freedom and were persecuted their entire life retire with a microscopic pension," he said, "while their tormentors and secret policemen have huge salaries and are successful entrepreneurs".

"I regard it as very sad that people who struggled to ensure freedom and were persecuted their entire life retire with a microscopic pension," he said recently at an event marking the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, "while their tormentors and secret policemen have huge salaries and are successful entrepreneurs".