Words similar to persecution

Example sentences for: persecution

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It does sound bad, especially given the 2,000 year history of Jewish persecution by cranky Christians.
A leader in the Financial Times responded to the findings of an investigative commission that linked 54,000 Swiss bank accounts to victims of Nazi persecution and concluded that some financial institutions made "deliberately misleading statements" to Jews who sought family assets lost in World War II.
Armenians' desire for independence from (and continued resentment of) the U.S.S.R. was caused in part by the Soviets' persecution of church leaders.
The cover package slams the tobacco deal and the persecution of both smokers and the tobacco industry.
He told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica Sunday that he regards the president as just another victim of "this wave of McCarthyite persecution of powerful and successful men."