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Example sentences for: persecuted

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A haven for persecuted Japanese Christians in the 17th century, Portugal’s neutrality during World War II assured the territory a flood of refugees.
Le Figaro also said that to think the Serbs would now desert their leader showed "a deep misunderstanding of the psychology of a people which considers itself persecuted and besieged."
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.
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.