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After filling out a questionnaire with the help of an interpreter, an interview may follow where the applicant seeking protection will have to prove a well founded fear of persecution.
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Unlike most extradition agreements, the EAW explicitly rules out the possibility of an asylum claim on the grounds of political persecution.
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Maybe all that betraying and bribing and promise-breaking and sympathy for baby-killers and persecution of conservatives has somehow co-existed with votes for conservative legislation.
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Yet that early sticking point in Suburbicon never comes unstuck: the use of white supremacist threat as a mere red herring, and the ongoing persecution of a black family as an ongoing sideshow to wackier goings-on elsewhere.
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Maryam was diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia at age 4, when her family was seeking refuge from religious persecution in Turkey, said Maryam's mother, Asmaa Rasheed.
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The bomber, Brussel continued, was afflicted by a sense of persecution caused in the formative stages of his gender development, roughly ages 3 to 6.
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The monuments here tell stories, of Confederate soldiers, of disappointed lovers, of Nazi persecution, of tragedy, of wealth.
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When Scout's teacher, Miss Gates, expresses outrage at developments in Germany: Hitler and his henchmen are increasing their persecution of Jews.
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First Known Use of persecution
14th century
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persecution
legal Definition of persecution
- claimed persecution and sought asylum
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