Words similar to persecution

Example sentences for: persecution

How can you use “persecution” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In Paris Sunday, Le Monde published a front-page cartoon of a cameraman filming inside the president's trousers, while its editorial, titled "The American Pillory," condemned Kenneth Starr's "persecution" of the president and the broadcasting of the grand jury videotapes as the equivalent of "a public execution."
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."
To understand the pope's caution in denouncing the persecution of the Jews, it would be useful to analyse the similar caution shown by the Allies.
The South China Morning Post of Hong Kong fretted about the situation in Kosovo, where the Serbian population has shrunk from 200,000 to 50,000 as a result of post-conflict Albanian persecution.
When it was revealed to the Governor of Chaldea that Hinduism was in fact a serious religion with too many faithful to treat in this way, another solution had to be found: Hindus, along with Parsis who had fled an earlier Muslim persecution in Persia, were given the privileged status of dhimmi, dues-paying non-believers.