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  • Mr. MAROON: He was working for the committee, the -- the Watergate committee, and he was one of the -- on the proseca -- cution -- prosecutor's team there.

    The Nixon Years, 1969-1974, White House to Watergate 1999

  • It was declared heretic and a perse-cution launched against it a thousand years ago.

    Cold Copper Tears Cook, Glen 1988

  • To be sure, Meletus, the frustrated tragic poet, angered by Socrates 'vicious criticism of the poets, played a major role in his prose - cution, but Plato's attack on the poets was a pragmatic move.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN FISHER 1968

  • From this central imperative other pacifistic injunctions follow as theorems: for example, “Judge not that ye be not judged,” means that Christians should take no part even in legal prose - cution for it is our laws that make criminals.

    ETHICS OF PEACE ELIZABETH FLOWER 1968

  • They would also observe that perse - cution creates the problems which it claims to solve: the only alternative left to the dissident group is that of armed revolt.

    RELIGIOUS TOLERATION ELISABETH LABROUSSE 1968

  • It meant a kind of intellectual revolution, but when one came to see that voluntariness of belief was itself an essential thing (and that the quality of belief even had some relation to its voluntariness), Christians in the course of time could come to wonder why they had ever permitted perse - cution at all.

    CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • Perhaps I have rather invited this perse - cution, since I have often had occasion to point out to him how superficial are his own accounts and to accuse him of pandering to popular taste instead of confining himself rigidly to facts and figures.

    The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

  • Perhaps I have rather invited this perse - cution, since I have often had occasion to point out to him how superficial are his own accounts and to accuse him of pandering to popular taste instead of confining himself rigidly to facts and figures.

    The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

  • Perhaps I have rather invited this perse - cution, since I have often had occasion to point out to him how superficial are his own accounts and to accuse him of pandering to popular taste instead of confining himself rigidly to facts and figures.

    The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

  • Page view page image: rather than the outward; Cornelius and the Munich masters regard the idea as principal, and exe cution as secondary; the master conceives and the pupil paints; the aim of their wholly philosophic and symbolic work is to excite the spectator to reflect on some great moral or social verity.

    The Philosophy of Art 1873

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