Sentence examples for a secular war from inspiring English sources

This is no longer a secular war".

"The game being played here by Kennedy (and many justices before him)" Fish writes, "is 'let's pretend.'" Pretend, that is, that this cross is strictly a secular war memorial, that it isn't a religious symbol, and that Congress wasn't trying to protect it as such — or, put differently, that the case could just be about this cross, and not about the family of crosses it belongs to.

The presence of foreign fighters in Syria, many of them espousing a more firebrand form of Islam, has troubled many Syrians who see the fight as a secular war to oust Assad.

I think it's safe to say that a good number of Christians actually side with Bruni's basic position, because they've already had the "debate" -- meaning that what is at stake is not so much a "secular" war on Christian beliefs but rather the meaning of those beliefs and who gets to make decisions in regard to them.

The Vatican has lost the secular war on abortion.

After the War the family returned to Paris, and a secular way of life.

Flanders in the sixteenth century was a pit of violence — secular wars, religious wars, peasant revolts.

Violence in the North Caucasus is rooted in two largely secular wars for independence between Chechen separatists and the Russian army in the 1990s.

Which means the secular wars and atheistic genocides of recent history enable us to more impartially understand the true causes of war and terror, and especially those wars persistent in the Middle East that claim to have religious ideological and canonical causes to this day, are a fear of difference, the will to power and the requirements of subsistence.

The imposing Second Empire architecture makes the business district of Algiers look like downtown Marseille or Nice, but behind the shimmering white facade lies a country shattered by a hideously violent civil war between a secular government that controls the cities and the Islamic jihadists who control the mountain villages and the desert beyond.

Born in Beirut, the 49-year-old Doueiri was raised during Lebanon's civil war in a secular household by left-wing parents, and "grew up hating Jews and Israel".