Sentence examples for which persecuted from inspiring English sources

He says he feels little loyalty to the US, which persecuted his leftwing family.

But in South Korea people count, not left and right, and Kim Dae Jung can work with his contemporary, Kim Jong Pil, even though that particular Mr Kim founded the Korean CIA, which persecuted the president in his dissident days.And perhaps voters get the representatives they deserve.

He said the world of science was still bruised by its encounter with organised religion in the shape of the Catholic church which persecuted brave giants like Galileo and Copernicus; this left science not just with a justified fear of religious obscurantism, but with a reluctance to look at physical reality, and at life in all its forms, as an interconnected whole.

In its effort to suppress the revolt, the Communist authorities unleashed an officially-sanctioned anti-Semitic campaign, which persecuted the remaining Jewish citizens of Poland, forcing most of them to flee.

Nothing embodies the futility and wanton disregard of Plan Colombia, however, quite like aerial coca fumigation, which persecuted impoverished growers in Colombia perhaps even more zealously than domestic policing has impoverished Americans.

He also taught, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which persecute you; (Matthew 5 44).

The eight "blessed" groups in Matthew are "the poor in spirit," "they that mourn," "the meek," "they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness," "the merciful," "the pure in heart," "the peacemakers," and "they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake" (King James Version).

For instance, tales like Cinderella – in which a persecuted heroine, with the help of the fairy godmother or similar magical helper, attends an event (or three) in which she wins the love of a prince and is identified as his true bride – are classified as type 510, the persecuted heroine.

He died in 1965, months before China's Communist regime unleashed the Cultural Revolution, which aggressively persecuted the country's writers, artists and other intelligentsia, sometimes unto death.

Trump also has advocated warmer relations with Vladimir Putin's authoritarian government, which has persecuted journalists who have been critical of him.

Many of the worshippers at the shrine in Kabul were Hazaras, a mostly Shia ethnic minority which was persecuted by the Taliban regime.