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Of course, longtime watchers of Malaysia know this isn't the case: Anwar may have been Mahathir's victim, but he remains his persecutor's protégé, as B'nai B'rith acknowledged last month when it urged American policymakers to shun him over a pattern of anti-Semitic statements.
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It IS a determination not to tolerate others in doing what is permitted by their religion, because it is not permitted by the persecutor's religion.
On Liberty 2002
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Seventeen years have veil'd me from his hate in vain: those years have wasted the victim's form, but the persecutor's heart remains unchanged: my retreat is discovered: the wretches who were here last night too surely recognized me; soon they may return, and force me; oh! thought of horror.
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They had no minister now, who would grasp the fallen Banner of the Covenant, and hold it forth, in defiance of the persecutor's rage.
Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters
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Some, however, of the stones, as I have said, may have been used according to the popular legend for the drowning of martyrs; and these weights were conveniently at hand in places of public resort, and lent themselves readily, by the rings inserted in many of them, to the persecutor's purpose.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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The words attributed to him at the stake by Buchanan and Lindsay of Pitscottie, foreshadowing his persecutor's approaching fate, are not generally regarded as authentic.
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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She suffered ten months after Cromwell, and could have committed no fresh offence in the interval, as she was a prisoner in the Tower at the time of her persecutor's fall, and so remained until the day of her murder.
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With the fiddles working themselves to the bone and the piano bounding under its persecutor's blows, Lady Wetherby ducked, side-stepped, rushed, and sprang, moving her arms in a manner that may have been classical Greek, but to the untrained eye looked much more like the last round of some open-air bout.
Uneasy Money 1928
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When a man who had come to take Jesus had his ear cut off, Jesus in his tender compassion healed this bitter persecutor's wound.
How to Live a Holy Life Charles Ebert Orr 1897
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The voice was so close this time that the cat was freed by his persecutor's violent start.
At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Myrtle Reed 1892
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