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Persecuted in sentence

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Horthy persecuted Jews for decades before Nazi Germany invaded Hungary.
In Germany, especially, any person persecuted on political grounds has a constitutional right to asylum.
The duty to provide protection to those with a “well-founded fear of being persecuted” is contained in the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and reinforced by the Treaty of Lisbon.
He has stoked a sense of common grievance by maligning minorities and, like all populists, portraying the majority group as persecuted victims.
After all, if the people feel persecuted by Japan or the United States, then the people will demand chauvinistic policies.
But thanks to the Platform for Education in Emergencies Response, charities, philanthropists, and foundations can unite to help refugee students find higher-education opportunities, and to provide safe havens for lecturers and professors persecuted by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The place would explode if the truth came out about what actually happened in villages during land reform and the various stages of collectivization during and after the revolution; or about who persecuted whom during the "anti-rightist campaign" in 1957; or about how many millions died during the great famine induced by the disastrous policies of the "great leap forward" a few years later; or who denounced whom in the universities and residence committees during the "cultural revolution" of the late sixties.
The United Nations considers the stateless Rohingya to be among the world’s most persecuted minorities.
The OUN conducted terrorist attacks in pre-war Poland, was persecuted by the Soviets after they occupied Eastern Poland in 1939, allied itself with the Nazis after they invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and slaughtered thousands of Poles and Jews in a drive to “purify” Ukraine.
In other words, the EU’s own governments acknowledged in 2003 that the Turkish government had persecuted more than 2,000 of its own citizens.
It is a sad paradox, indeed, that for many the ex-communists, in opposing the church, pose as defenders of the liberal democratic values that they once persecuted with unremitting zeal.
Those who both persecuted and were persecuted are willing to talk only about their being victims.
She complained that she was “too famous,” “too active,” and “too stressed” at the time, and she provided extensive details about how Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing, persecuted the Ye family and how the Ye children went to prison.
But she had only 58 words to say about her career as a Red Guard leader – no details or explanation of how she joined, which activities she participated in, and whether she was involved in “physical struggles” or persecuted others.
To call for those people who applied violence and persecuted others to examine themselves and repent is not intended to mete out legal responsibility and moral judgment.
According to Duwe, the difference may lie partly in an acute sense of being persecuted – and an acute desire for revenge.
Eventually, anybody – from the President to average citizens – could be criticized, labeled an “ox-demon and snake-spirit,” persecuted, and listed for death.
In his closing remarks, he announced his words of wisdom to viewers: “Long live those who don’t care!”Han Meilin was badly persecuted during the Cultural Revolution.
An Arab intellectual persecuted by an Arab regime, it seems, is nowhere near the top of their agenda.
The Right Iraqi InterventionCANBERRA – US President Barack Obama deserves unconditional support for his decision to use military force to protect the persecuted Yezidi minority from threatened genocide by marauding Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Iraq.
But, as any member of a historically persecuted community – from gays to Jews to Roma – can attest, social intolerance may curtail civil rights as much as any law.
As recently as May 2012, he pontificated that “[t]he governments trying to do something for the majority of the people are persecuted by journalists, who think that by having a pen and a microphone they can direct even their resentment against you.
Around the country, many red shirts are persecuted, and several have been murdered under mysterious circumstances.
Everyone has a right to travel abroad; no one is persecuted because of his or her beliefs.
No less a figure than Alexander Pushkin wrote in 1836 that “Orthodoxy has always been persecuted by Catholic fanaticism….Their missionaries cursed the Orthodox Church, with hypocrisy and threats tried to recruit into Catholicism not only ordinary people but Orthodox priests as well.”
For 3,000 years, India was a haven for the persecuted of all nations and faiths.
Yet it is impossible to ignore the exhibition’s painful lack of critical reflection as to why even the talented Jews it did decide to feature were persecuted, and how they survived.
Critics are persecuted, experts disparaged, and ridicule piled onto anyone with any kind of reasonable concern.
Is he the persecutor or the persecuted?
They were all love, lovers, sweethearts, persecuted ladies fainting in lonely pavilions, postilions killed at every stage, horses ridden to death on every page, sombre forests, heartaches, vows, sobs, tears and kisses, little skiffs by moonlight, nightingales in shady groves, "gentlemen" brave as lions, gentle as lambs, virtuous as no one ever was, always well dressed, and weeping like fountains.
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