Sentence examples for would persecute from inspiring English sources

So you had Communists taking over the Soviet Union and they would persecute the anarchists.

I am upset that we have a justice system that would persecute me the way it did Aaron.

Iran is worried that a Taliban government ruling all Afghanistan would persecute Iran's co-religionists, the 1m or more Hazara Shia minority, who live in the mountainous centre of the country.

He had grown up in Vilna, now Vilnius in Lithuania, and fled east when the Germans occupied the city, leaving his first wife and mother behind in the common delusion that Germans would persecute only the men.

These texts later became fodder for those who would persecute both them and us.

So let's mark this seventieth anniversary by recognizing that there are still plenty of people, groups, and governments who would persecute and scapegoat certain segments of society.

If the world wouldn't persecute me, I'd take nude pictures every day of the week".

That was "the best protection, and the best way to make sure that people wouldn't persecute me," he said.

They would also persecute, or banish, other Europeans -- now living in the colonies -- who had different religious views from their own.

He promised that he would not "persecute any that will be quiet and give an outward obedience to the law", and believed that exile was a better solution than capital punishment: "I would be glad to have both their heads and their bodies separated from this whole island and transported beyond seas".

On ascending the English throne, James, suspecting he might need the support of Catholics in England, had assured the Earl of Northumberland, a prominent sympathiser of the old religion, that he would not persecute "any that will be quiet and give but an outward obedience to the law".