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The restoration of monarchies in 1814-15 heralded a wave of persecution of minorities deemed to be associated with revolution.
She was a tough Aussie laywoman who persevered in faith over the persecution of her hostile bishop.
Indeed, the Church reproves every form of persecution against whomsoever it may be directed.
The African wild dog, Lycaon pictus, also called the painted wolf or the Cape hunting dog is the victim mainly of human persecution.
International law says that seeking refuge from persecution is not a crime.
In the paranoid form of this disorder, they develop delusions of persecution or personal grandeur.
After the first diaries, which deal with years of persecution and suffering, one expects this one to be a chronicle of deliverance.
The Trial Chamber found that in the case at issue the defendants were guilty of persecution.
Ten percent of the population of the new member states are Roma gypsies, who have a long history of marginalisation and persecution.
Hawks were clearly on the decline in the eastern United States, and their persecution seemed to be increasing.
Latvians who escaped persecution in their occupied country and set up home in Bradford have been given a special preview of a moving exhibition.
Like all raptors, they have also been subjected to persecution on some estates by over-zealous gamekeepers.
The charity is increasingly concerned about cyberbullying, which involves persecution by email, mobile phones or on social networking websites.
This persecution of the already-overtaxed motorist is becoming almost as hysterical as the persecution of smokers and the hunting fraternity.
He called the prosecution case against him a frame-up that is part of a government-inspired persecution stretching back decades.
On the issue of persecution and ill-treatment I find that the Appellant is a credible witness.
Most of the people who are fleeing persecution never even get to the next country.
The protected birds were once widespread in England but continual persecution led to their virtual extinction.
Are my followers and I supposed to sit there tomorrow and eat our turkey complacently while this persecution is occurring?
They cannot persuasively argue that indigent boat people, fleeing poverty and persecution, represent a terrorist threat.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I may have been mistaken with regard to the cause of my persecution by the Wilsons, but I think not.
In the year 1620 also the persecution against the Albigenses was very severe.
On one occasion some of them gave rise to a persecution in the town of amazia in Asia Minor.
The Saints did continue to suffer much persecution, some did apostatize, others did die of exposure, disease and privation.
Not that he is in danger of an auto-da-fe, but he is exposed to continued obloquy and persecution.
Like the burning bush of old, this church has been burning with persecution, but has not been consumed.
With the canceling of the Indulgence, the persecution of the Quakers was renewed.
The crowds delusion of persecution, conspiracy, or oppression is thus a defense mechanism of this nature.
The Donatist controversy sprang out of the Diocletian persecution in the beginning of the century.
In the unceasing struggle of the workers with their exploiters the truly loyal leaders are always marked for persecution.
A foumart micht as weel speak o' persecution when he's hunted aff the hillside.
All that were enduring persecution in the Helvetic cantons for the cause of the Gospel addressed themselves to him.
In Slovakia he found the same persecution of all suspected of lack of sympathy with the plans and purposes of the Central Powers.
Curses and persecution for the devil's offspring, the illuminati, we swear!
But it is also plain that the decay had begun when the Puritan was the victim instead of the inflictor of persecution.
Who but a Hapsburg caused the persecution and jailing of the revivalists who undertook the task of awakening the nation?
There were restrictions on commerce, statute labor, barbarous penal laws, religious persecution and Jew-baiting.
The persecution of which they complained was the persecution of the honest man by the knave.
A book that not only permits, but commands religious persecution, has not in my judgment developed the affectional nature of man.
The prototype which the paranoiac reconstructs in his persecution mania, is found in the relation of the child to its father.
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