| Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. |
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| My job was not to persecute people for blasphemous advances of the sciences, or for heretical religious teachings. |
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| Last week, we witnessed two fine examples of the extent to which anti-smoking zealots will go in order to hound and persecute smokers. |
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| They rejected independence for Ukraine and began to persecute Ukrainian nationalists. |
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| However, Galileo avoided open speculation about its possible infiniteness, as that question had been used to persecute Giordano Bruno. |
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| Why should we support religiously intolerant regimes that virtually enslave women and persecute nonbelievers to death? |
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| Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake. |
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| Yet one of the things it has oppressed is the desire of local majorities to persecute local minorities. |
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| Another set of papers in the latest Lancet excoriate those who do not particularly those who persecute prostitutes. |
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| It was here that I first learned about human rights and the solemn obligation of the state to protect, rather than persecute. |
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| Like so many others, they went to Bogota because they wanted to get away from the people who were threatening to persecute them. |
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| These very institutions are sometimes used to persecute the opponents to the current regime who dare criticize it. |
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| Blest are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of slander against you because of me. |
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| This in fact means to struggle in the way of God by striving to do good, and to fight against only those who persecute and not by attacking innocent civilians or bystanders. |
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| The misuse of the criminal justice system to persecute opponents is common in Mexico. |
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| Pray that the Lord will save those who currently persecute our sisters and brothers. |
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| For human rights NGOs, the highest priority often is reducing the ability of states to persecute their own people. |
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| He submits that the real reason behind this verdict was the authorities' desire to persecute him for his political activities. |
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| Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. |
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| This agency took over and extended bureaucratic measures to systematically persecute Roma. |
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| In my obsession against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them. |
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| Putin would use such a treaty to persecute innocent Russians who have escaped his grasp by fleeing the country. |
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| On several occasions, authorities have chosen to apply non-political charges to persecute dissidents. |
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| We are also keenly aware of the fact that states routinely use a wide range of charges to persecute the press. |
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| It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree of fanaticism with which the followers of these anti-religious fundamentalisms fustigate and persecute their adversaries. |
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| We see a dictator using force to repress and persecute his opponents. |
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| These groups focus on drug-trafficking, but are also thought to persecute trade unionists. |
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| For the post-Soviet KGB, which still occupied the same armada of buildings in historic central Moscow, there were no more ideological nonconformists to persecute. |
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| From that day forward, man shall abhor war, tear hatred and rancor from his heart, persecute sin, and begin a life of restoration and reconstruction. |
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| But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. |
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| Such attacks, if allowed to go unpunished, would embolden the Government and its political police to persecute other unions, both in Puerto Rico and the United States. |
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| Citizens in a democracy must trust the government not to abridge their rights, and minorities must trust the majority not to harm or persecute them. |
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| Although Oanh has openly expressed that she needs to care for her 6-year old daughter, Tram Anh, and her nearly 90-year old elderly weak parents-in-law, the PSP remain heartlessly insensitive and persistently persecute her. |
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| The only father in this new community is God, and God intends that all eventually enter into this new community, even those who persecute the emerging community and even the unrighteous. |
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| Whenever governments in unstable places persecute believers, that policy is not merely bad in itself but dangerous because it has the perverse effect of weakening moderate people of faith and empowering extremism. |
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| Others recognise that the AUC is independent of the army, and that government policy must be directed to make the army persecute the AUC as criminals. |
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| They speak of the persecution of minorities while allowing certain minorities, ethnic, public or other, to persecute the majority of the population. |
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| I proved to my faithful apostle that he was not alone in his ordeal and that if he trusted in my power, I would defend him from those who wanted to persecute him. |
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| It has sometimes been claimed that possession of a passport signifies that the issuing authorities do not intend to persecute the holder, for otherwise they would not have issued a passport to him. |
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| In that regard, his delegation was concerned at the tendency to use a vague, overly broad definition of terrorism to persecute human rights groups. |
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| Francis himself came to view the movement as a plot against him and began to persecute its followers. |
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| If Collins smells a rat, you might gain nothing and tempt the gang to persecute you and your daughter. |
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| Maybe it's just that smokers are the only minority it's politically correct to persecute. |
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| And do you not think, that all these poor Lazaruses, that you have persecuted, and do persecute, that when they die, they will not be carried into Abraham's bosom? |
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| Although Frederick initially pledged to persecute Lutherans, he soon adopted a policy of protecting Lutheran preachers and reformers, the most significant being Hans Tausen. |
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| The recovery of European wolf populations began after the 1950s, when traditional pastoral and rural economies declined and thus removed the need to heavily persecute wolves. |
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| Whilst our hearts obviously go out to the young children who were injured, this is not a reason to demonise and persecute an entire species of animal. |
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