verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Catholics were often persecuted under communism.
▪
Countries all over Europe have persecuted gypsies for centuries.
▪
Duke said he was being persecuted by a hostile media.
▪
Human rights advocates say racial minorities continue to be persecuted.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
As a result, he was persecuted by both regimes.
▪
Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you....
▪
But tensions continued as victims of the repression took revenge against the cadres who had persecuted them.
▪
Later, in Victorian times, birds of prey were persecuted by game keepers, by taxidermists and by egg collectors.
▪
Now, as Brown moves to expand that empire, he says he is feeling persecuted himself.
▪
She was being persecuted and it was part of a carefully laid plan.
▪
Since society does not generally punish people for their illnesses, it followed that society should not persecute gays.
▪
The narrators have been persecuted for standing up for their principles.