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Persecuted

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Persecuted meaning

simple past and past participle of persecute

Example sentences (20)

At the end of his general audience, Pope Francis asked for people to join him in praying for a Catholic priest who was killed in Nigeria and for persecuted Christians around the world.

But some mothers and children - including - were persecuted after the war, or forced into exile.

Given that self-described had provided the muscle behind the coup and that the new regime was explicitly anti-Russian – going so far as to ban Russian from public discourse – the persecuted residents of the Donbas had every right to secede.

He felt persecuted by my concern and I felt abused by his silence.

He's the first president in history to face prosecution and is promoting the narrative that he's being persecuted by his likely general election opponent.

He was an innocent man, much like many other innocent people who are being persecuted by this now Fascist government of ours, and I was honored to give him a Full Pardon!

His efforts saved hundreds of persecuted Jews and other refugees, many of whom were children.

Hosted by Aid to the Church in Need, the pontifical foundation supporting persecuted Christians, the meeting brought together religious freedom advocates in Washington, D.C., for the International Religious Freedom Summit.

How is it that the Jewish nation who will be persecuted throughout history will survive?

If it becomes law, it will close off a key means to hold companies to account for human rights abuses, once again showing that our government thinks little of the plight of persecuted communities around the world.

In a statement, his lawyer Samantha Harris said: 'When Charles Negy dared to express views at odds with the university's sacred orthodoxies, UCF persecuted him with a relentlessness and a cruelty that is rare even among university administrations.

In recent years, there have been efforts to formally acknowledge and pardon the innocents who were accused and persecuted during this tragic and dark chapter in Scottish history.

Israel was not on the list, instead offering safe haven for persecuted Christian minorities from outside its borders.

Like other strongmen, he presents himself as a persecuted savior of a disenfranchised sector of society that sees its traditional values and mores as under attack.

Members of the faith were persecuted by the Nazi regime because they remained politically neutral.

Mr. Abeysekera was hounded out of a job and is still being persecuted to the deafening silence of then opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe under whose government the investigations had progressed.

No Ukrainian religious community or Church has been banned or persecuted for its religious practices.

One of them injected their claims that Nithyananda was being "persecuted" into her comments.

Our ways of being were persecuted by a nation and church that deemed themselves superior to us.

Political prisoner Job Sikhala remains unjustly imprisoned, denied his right to bail and persecuted.