persecute

Subject

• regime: Shostakovich, in particular, was persecuted by the Soviet regime when his music was thought to be too'modern ' or élitist.
• authority: These are people who are being persecuted by the authorities in their own country.

Object

• believer: Do you desire to pray with others & be informed concerning the needs of persecuted believers & the nations?
• minority: Was the true Church a national church or a persecuted minority?
• prophet: Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Preposition: for

• righteousness: Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness ' sake; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• sake: Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness sake.
• reason: Women are persecuted for the same reason as men.

Preposition: by

• regime: Shostakovich, in particular, was persecuted by the Soviet regime when his music was thought to be too'modern ' or élitist.
• authority: These are people who are being persecuted by the authorities in their own country.
• police: I ) Political dissidents are persecuted by the police for thought crimes.

Modifying Another Word

• relentlessly: But the devotion and zeal of the Anarchists in no way deterred the Communists from relentlessly persecuting the Anarchist movement.
• brutally: The Sudanese government have brutally persecuted the Nuba tribes people of Central Sudan.
• bitterly: Origen was deposed, excommunicated, and bitterly persecuted.
• severely: However, during the 1970s Buddhists were severely persecuted by the Khmer Rouge.
• heavily: This is mainly because they are less heavily persecuted.