In northern Montana, where wolves were heavily persecuted by aerial hunters, wolves learned to avoid open areas whenever they heard aircraft.

In British-ruled India, wolves were heavily persecuted due to their attacks on sheep, goats and children.

Heavily persecuted, these heresies were eradicated by the 14th century.

However, due to such strict censorship, they were heavily persecuted for what was perceived as disloyalty and a threat to the power of the government.

As they are no longer heavily persecuted, adult mortality is quite low.

During the Soviet occupation, the members of the organisation were heavily persecuted.

In the 1920s, tigers were heavily persecuted by the Communists, who would on occasion bag up to eight or ten on a single outing.

Heavily persecuted, it appears that they had written asking him first about those who had died already, and, secondly, when they should expect the end.

The Soviet Union was an atheist state, in which religion was largely discouraged and at times heavily persecuted.

It was heavily persecuted by Saddam Hussein and came to represent the Shiites' sense of victimhood under the old government.