Watching Corvus forced into increasingly harassed retreat by a man who should have drowned in his mother's birth fluids and saved the world from his presence was not amusing at all.

But he was increasingly harassed, for being Jewish as well as for his poetry.

Senior police-officers appeared to play these incidents down, but black youths complained that on the estate they were increasingly harassed by the police.

The New York City Police Department says its officers have been increasingly harassed by people dotting them for sport, a potentially lethal practice.

Many Bosniaks were removed from positions in government and private business; and Bosniaks in general were increasingly harassed.

On Tatooine, Han tries unsuccessfully to arrange a personal meeting with Jabba, and is increasingly harassed by bounty hunters working for the crime lord.

He was a compact, muscular man with a short, salt-and-pepper beard and an expression which had become increasingly harassed over the past several five-days.

Opposition voices were increasingly harassed or jailed, a situation that was not surprising in view of the regime's growing fears over national security.

Rank and file oppositionists were increasingly harassed, sometimes expelled from the Party and even arrested.