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Example sentences for: persecution

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A U.N. tribunal found five ethnic Croats guilty of "persecution" and crimes against humanity for their role in ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
The new law limits refugees' rights to appeal individual persecution, and it speeds up the process of ejecting those without identity papers.
The Covenanters faced severe persecution at the hands of the king’s supporters, who had decided to follow his father’s policy of imposing bishops on the Scots.
Even after the persecution and banishing of missionaries and the ban on Christianity, Nagasaki’s Catholics still managed — at great risk — to continue clandestine observance throughout the years of the Tokugawa shogunate.
In the last decades of the 19th century, many thousands of Jews of the Diaspora seeking refuge from persecution immigrated to Palestine.