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"Persecution" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
Stop the persecution!
In spite of the tyrant’s persecution, the hero valiantly carried on the struggle.
The Pilgrims came to America, fleeing religious persecution.
Tom suffers from a persecution complex.
We can learn a lot about an historical event such as the persecution of the Jews and make sure that something similar does not happen again.
Some of them were and are in constant danger due to political repression and persecution.
Others came to escape religious persecution.
He has a persecution complex.
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Many apartheid perpetrators escaped prosecution for their persecution of black Africans and political dissidents.
During the early 20th century, wolves were considered undesirable. They were subject to persecution and were extirpated from large areas of their original range. With increased environmental awareness in the 1970s, attitudes toward wolves began to change.
[…] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]
Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
I see this not as persecution, but a learning chance to grow.
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