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  • We there saw how the new religion appeared in the Orient, how it spread rapidly over the Roman Empire, how it engaged with the imperial government in the long conflict called the Persecutions, how the emperor Constantine, after his conversion, placed it on an equality with paganism, and how at the end of the fourth century the emperor Theodosius made it the state religion.

    Early European History Hutton Webster

  • Sharlet's article, "Straight Man's Burden: The American Roots of Uganda's Anti-Gay Persecutions," is published in the September issue of "Harper's."

    Finding The Root Of Anti-Gay Sentiment In Uganda 2010

  • Sharlet's article, "Straight Man's Burden: The American Roots of Uganda's Anti-Gay Persecutions," is published in the September issue of "Harper's."

    Finding The Root Of Anti-Gay Sentiment In Uganda 2010

  • Sharlet's article, "Straight Man's Burden: The American Roots of Uganda's Anti-Gay Persecutions," is published in the September issue of "Harper's."

    Finding The Root Of Anti-Gay Sentiment In Uganda 2010

  • Sharlet's article, "Straight Man's Burden: The American Roots of Uganda's Anti-Gay Persecutions," is published in the September issue of "Harper's."

    Finding The Root Of Anti-Gay Sentiment In Uganda 2010

  • Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Persecutions would naturally follow, or be justifiable in an association where Mr. Gladstone's views were paramount.

    The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

  • Persecutions, massacres, and wars have been coolly justified by calculations of long-range benefit to mankind; and political pragmatists in the advanced countries, using cost benefit analyses prepared for them by gifted professors, continue to burn and destroy.

    A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Hampshire, Stuart 1973

  • London &c. As he enlarged upon the defamations and Persecutions against himself and his

    John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961

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