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Example sentences for: persecution

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I will assume for argument's sake that the author is not blatantly anti-Semitic, but is only trying to outline the theories put forward over the centuries which account for the survival of the Jewish people in the face of hundreds of years of persecution.
In the 1930s, persecution of European Jews forced even greater numbers to flee to the Holy Land.
Gotti sees himself as a victim of Government-led persecution, and compares Federal breakups of organized crime to the US Government's treatment of Native Americans in the 19th century.
1153(a)(7)), as in effect on March 31, 1980, because of persecution or fear of persecution on account of race, religion, or political calamity.
Bu ddhism was founded over 2,500 years ago in reaction to Brahmanic orthodoxy, but it practically vanished as an organized religion from the Indian scene by persecution and absorption into the Hindu mainstream.