Sentence examples for a religious state from inspiring English sources

She sets out to demolish the cliché that Saudi Arabia is a religious state.

Although Israel was established as a religious state, its religious dimension was mainly symbolic.

He feared that Poland would become a "religious state" under Law and Justice.

We don't want a religious state influenced by the ideology of IS [Islamic State].

How about if a religious state evolves in part of the region that covertly supports terrorism?

But a religious state is possible only when it is elected and governed by the people.

Figes presents czarist Russia as a deeply religious state, on a "divine mission" to recapture Constantinople and deliver millions of Orthodox Christians from Ottoman rule.

But in the following decades, the new Iran started acting less like a radical religious state and more like a conventional regional power.

But militant Islamists have been regaining ground over the past year in Anbar, with the stated aim of creating a Sunni religious state straddling the border into Syria's rebel-held eastern desert provinces.

"That is not my vision of a Palestinian state, an extreme religious state where people they don't like are shot in the legs.

Opposition parties say the aim is to remove the judiciary as an obstacle to the AKP's perceived goal of a more religious state.