persecute
Example Sentences
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Many people come to the border seeking asylum, a formal process under which eligible migrants ask the government for legal protections after fleeing places where they believe they would be persecuted or tortured upon returning.
Unlike my recent trips there this one wasn’t interrupted by mass demonstrations on behalf of persecuted Muslims.
Roman North Africa went from a place where Christians were persecuted to a region known for its devotion.
In Perpetua’s lifetime, Christians were a tiny and sometimes persecuted minority, but after the conversion of Emperor Constantine in the early fourth century, the Roman Empire came under Christian rule.
Mary asserts her right to the English crown and her belief that she was being persecuted for her Catholic faith.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
