It is sufficient, the majority ruled, for an alien to show either past persecution or "good reason" to fear future persecution.

But the judge granted asylum to Bernadette McAllister for having "suffered extreme past persecution based on her religion, her political opinion, and because she is Malachy McAllister's wife."

Jacobson is out of tune with some of Israel's most revered writers who do not hesitate to make the link between the founding of Israel and past persecution of the Jews.

An applicant's claim for asylum is stronger where she can show past persecution, in which case she will receive a presumption that she has a well-founded fear of persecution in her home country.

The war in El Salvador ended in 1991; past persecution does not warrant asylum.

At the same time, the evangelicals condemned anti-Semitism, repudiated past persecutions of Jews by Christians and supported "the Jewish quest for a homeland with secure borders and a just peace."

There is only the continuing agonizing awareness of reality, the tortured memories of past persecution, and the firm conviction that the massacres, the pogroms, the holocaust must-never-happen-again.

Some younger artists who are not haunted by memories of prolonged past persecutions are confronting the crackdown with imagination.

This came about largely because of past persecution resulting from the English Reformation of the 16th century.

The Jews did not believe in him, because of his past persecutions of the Jews.