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Persecuted in sentence

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My father had been instilled with such respect for the law that although he was being persecuted, he'd never thought of false papers.
It defines a refugee as someone who is outside their country of nationality, and is unable to return to their home country because of well-founded fears of being persecuted.
Probably most of you have never persecuted a French-Jewish officer for high treason, I assume, but maybe you've followed sports or politics, so you might have noticed that when the referee judges that your team committed a foul, for example, you're highly motivated to find reasons why he's wrong.
Asylum seekers are people who present themselves at a border and say that they'll be persecuted if they're sent back home.
Or take Burma and the monks that were blogging out, a country that nobody knew anything about that was happening, until these blogs told the world that there was a repression, meaning that lives were being lost and people were being persecuted and Aung San Suu Kyi, who is one of the great prisoners of conscience of the world, had to be listened to.
Most notably, this portrait of age of terror takes place almost entirely at one remove from the real action; one sees very little of ordinary people in this movie, and little of the chaos, poverty and terror that unfolded away from the drawing rooms of the persecuted, but spoilt, aristocratic classes.
I really felt for her when Lindy was being persecuted.
Any teenage metal nerd could relate to the trials of Eddie "Ragman" Weinbauer (Marc Price of "Family Ties")in this film as he is persecuted by the preppie "beautiful" people in his high school for his heavy metal fashions and musical taste.
Poor De Sade, persecuted and imprisoned in his lifetime, misrepresented after his death, and unlike one-time-fellow-prisoner Laclos, author of Dangerous Liaisons, is persecuted and tortured on film.
While vaguely historical,i.e., the Mormons were persecuted and Brigham Young did lead them to Utah; this film is very inaccurate in portraying that history.
But to suggest that he was persecuted because he was black is not only unfounded (it is not in the Bible), but it is ludicrous.
He was persecuted because He was the Son of God: God in the flesh; and to suggest that the motivation was anything else, including His race, is to undermine and dilute the entire message of the Gospel.
He was persecuted and killed for who He was, and not for the color of His skin.
Then out of nowhere Jews are persecuted, people get sent to concentration camps and Mr Benigni becomes annoying.
Jews, alleged by the Nazis to pose an existential threat to Germany, could be persecuted – and later murdered en masse – with total impunity.
The Plight of the RomaNEW YORK – The Roma have been persecuted across Europe for centuries.
At the end, we learn that Nikolai was persecuted to make room not for the mayor's palace, but for a cathedral.
Now, thanks to the Institute of International Education, charities, philanthropists, and foundations have united to help refugee students find higher-education opportunities, and to provide safe havens for lecturers and professors persecuted by the Syrian regime.
Another possibility is to raise the issue through bilateral agreements with countries where Christians are persecuted.
Havel was blacklisted and openly persecuted after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in August of that year, but he continued to write anti-totalitarian plays.
Opposition figures have been persecuted, dismissed, kidnapped, imprisoned, and tortured in police stations and jails.
Born in 1936 into one of the wealthiest Czech families, Havel was one of the people persecuted because of their "wrong class origins" after the Communist takeover of 1948.
In European regions where minority groups were persecuted 500 years ago, ethnic and religious conflicts have been more pervasive in recent times.
The constitution’s writers were undoubtedly aware that Jews had long been persecuted in other countries, but they concluded that it was not Norway’s problem.
As Shia Muslims, Iranians are a minority within the Muslim community, a reality that has caused them to feel persecuted.
Indeed, Chancellor Angela Merkel has bravely asserted “the fundamental right to asylum for the politically persecuted with no upper limit; and that goes for refugees who come to us from the hell of civil war.”
But, apart from persecuted minorities and dissidents, many ordinary people gained from government programs (not to mention the looting of conquered countries).
Myanmar’s persecuted minorities would gain the opportunity to help shape their country’s fledgling democracy.
They, too, have been persecuted for not being “sons of the soil.”
For where else would Christ be but with those who suffer and are persecuted?
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