We believe it is time to stop persecuting people because of their sexual orientation.

What interest could he have in persecuting the Baskerville family?

We have no interest in persecuting anyone."

There is a well known phrase: "Just because I'm paranoid it doesn't mean that people are not persecuting me."

The amendment was aimed at the Soviet practice of persecuting Jews while restricting them from leaving.

They protested that they were not persecuting the Catholic religion but wanted to reduce the Church's political influence.

They arrived in Tehran proclaiming their solidarity with a revolution that actively despised them while persecuting its own freethinkers.

"One minute you're talking about somebody persecuting the girl, and the next minute you're talking as if you thought she was the murderer.

This policy was again reversed during the reign of Gadadhar Singha, who began persecuting the sattras.

On Mr. Walsh's block, the owner and tenants of another student rental accused the association of persecuting them.

Linc brutally beat Wilcox and announced his intention of persecuting the man until he admitted his culpability.

He paints himself as the victim of a widespread left-wing conspiracy, and he has accused magistrates of persecuting him for political reasons.

Mrs. Plavsic pleaded guilty to persecuting Muslims and Croats during the Bosnian war, a crime against humanity.

As for the rest, those economic "crimes" that so outraged the liberal bleeding hearts, Padilla had no time for persecuting men who were the very backbone of society.

Subsequently he and his wife Lauren gave numerous interviews and press-conferences in Moscow accusing American secret services of persecuting dissidents in the United States.

After the Penal Laws persecuting Catholics were reformed in the 19th century, a new Catholic church, St Joseph's, was built in Rathwire.

By contrast, Dr. Lewinsky venomously attacked Independent Counsel Ken Starr - who only asked Monica questions - for "persecuting my daughter with McCarthyism tactics, grip-torture technique."

During the recent events in North Africa, the ruling regimes in Libya and Egypt used sexual assault as a weapon for intimidating and persecuting women who took part in the uprisings there.

In the mid-1960's, the army drove Indonesia's first President, Sukarno, from power, persecuting and killing hundreds of thousands of his allegedly Communist supporters as it transferred its loyalty to the new Suharto regime.

January 24 - President Katsav holds a press conference broadcast live on Israeli news broadcasts in which he accuses journalists of persecuting him and judging him before all the evidence has been presented and before actually being convicted.

But in the end the authorities appear to have failed to compile evidence of a crime, or to have decided that any charges against Dr. Jiang would be regarded as persecuting the man who had told the truth about SARS.

There is ample freedom of opinion and, as for the persecution of journalists in France for libel, well, she could have included just a word about the Italian courts’ bad habit of persecuting anyone who freely expresses their own opinions.

Virtually everyone here called for the removal of Mr. Karimov, whose government has been criticized for years for rigging elections, suppressing personal freedoms, persecuting opponents and Muslims who practice their faith out of state-sanctioned mosques, and systematically using torture.

The reviled Mr. Hussein, accused by Shiites of killing their most eminent clerics and persecuting their sect for more than 30 years, was in American custody, his decrepit underground hiding place given away by one of his own Sunni Muslim clansmen.

Even people who always thought themselves persecuted could be right sometimes.

In the old days, I guess, she might have been actually persecuted.

He was persecuted nine times in the course of years.

We are a political party that was itself persecuted by the army.

The government has got nothing better to do than to persecute me.

And if they persecute us, then it must be right.

You could persecute all the children in the world, but there's one thing you'll never have.

But if he did, who would be left to persecute the bad guys?

But he said the boy was persecuted in many other ways, and finally dropped out of school.

At this fair no one is to be persecuted to buy.

I should persecute anyone who would not show me respect.

Group members have long said they were being persecuted by white authorities because of their race.

No one should be persecuted because of their religious beliefs.

In the beginning there was no problem, but later Jews were persecuted.

"I feel more persecuted than you can ever imagine," she said.

All the stories I would like to write persecute me.

In the communist period he and members of his family were persecuted.

Since 2008 he is persecuted for freedom of scientific research.

"That must make it difficult for you to persecute her."

First (and once again), a man is being persecuted for having written a book.

In many of these cases they had been persecuted and sometimes forced to leave their homes.

I am shocked that in today's society those who need help the most are being persecuted.

The interviews made clear that they now had the strong sense of being persecuted by their own church.

At one point, he said the state had "persecuted" him.