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Example sentences for: persecuted

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Before ascending to the papacy in 1939, Eugenio Pacelli neutered German Catholic opposition to Nazism, campaigned to remove black troops from the Rhineland, and contemptuously declined to help persecuted Jews.
Telling the story of a myopic adolescent girl who's persecuted by her peers and slighted by her suburban family (which reveres her pretty little sister, a goody-two-shoes in a tutu), Solondz prolonged his heroine's humiliations until I wanted to scream, "I GET IT ALREADY!"
b) Has been persecuted by enemies who won't be satisfied until he is destroyed.
As Macau developed into the greatest port in the East, it also became a base for Jesuit missionaries; it was later a haven for persecuted Japanese Christians.
The plan does not include the Swiss government, whose central bank received the vast majority of wealth stolen by Nazis from Jews and other persecuted groups.