How to use "persecution" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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They suffer persecution from the villagers but are protected by the girl's father, the priest. - Warlock: The Armageddon
He then orders an end to the persecution of Christians and allows Androcles and his new 'pet' to depart in peace. - Androcles and the Lion (film)
She has a mysterious gift of healing and suffers persecution because of it. - Strands of Starlight
In October 1941, Stan Graham, a Westland smallholder, develops a persecution complex and starts to threaten his neighbours. - Bad Blood (1982 film)
Some of the prisoners (64 in ten days) were shot, and a period of persecution and repression began. - Pedro Juan Caballero (politician)
Once a popular hero to all Americans, he is forced into retirement by McCarthy-style government persecution in the 1950s. - The Return of Captain Invincible
Lady Maruyama is found to have been against the persecution of the Hidden and urged Takeo to tell her about the slaughter. - Across the Nightingale Floor
He seems to suffer from both a persecution complex and delusions of grandeur. - They Do It with Mirrors
Giles explains that certain demons thrive on watching humans destroy each other through persecution and ignorance. - Gingerbread (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
In 1938, the Redlich family flees to Kenya from Leobschütz in Silesia, Nazi Germany, to escape the increasing persecution of the Jews. - Nowhere in Africa
The themes of Christian atrocity with the persecution of alleged witches and sexual abuse against nuns are present. - The Eye (King Diamond album)
Manon publicly accuses César and Ugolin, and the villagers admit their own complicity in the persecution of Jean. - Manon des Sources (1986 film)
Ned Kelly is forced by police persecution to become a bushranger. - Ned Kelly (1970 film)
This balance of power is shattered by a large influx of people from the Scattering, some fleeing persecution by an as-yet unknown enemy. - Dune (franchise)
Their love story is told against the broader historical background of early Christianity and its persecution by Nero (Peter Ustinov). - Quo Vadis (1951 film)
The barber falls in love with a neighbor's daughter Hannah (Paulette Goddard), and together they try to resist persecution by storm troopers. - The Great Dictator

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