Sentence examples for between the two sects from inspiring English sources
"At any moment, there will be war between the two sects," he said.
The main doctrinal difference between the two sects centres on the question of Vishnu's grace.
On that subject, Nazmi, like many scholarly Iraqis I met, was at pains to insist that the differences between the two sects of Islam should not be exaggerated.
Saturday's attacks, thought to be carried out by Sunni Muslim insurgents, are believed to be aimed at sparking a civil war between the two sects.
The Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88 and Shia-Sunni civil war in Iraq in 2006-7 deepened the hatred between the two sects.
Much has been written about this topic since the occupation of Iraq launched a civil war between the two sects the like of which has not been seen in 1,400 years.
Shīʿites have long been the target of Sunni radicals, and violent encounters between followers of the two sects are common.
Those Democratic wave results look like they may accelerate the collapse in the wary alliance between these two sects of the GOP.
The Muslims are divided, however, between the two main sects of Islam, the Sunnites and the Shīʿites.
We have known what we have been up against for a long time". The pertinence of ancient teachings to a here-and-now battle is a common theme on both sides of a now bitter and protracted divide which is steadily becoming the most serious schism between the two Islamic sects since a seminal dispute over who should succeed the prophet Muhammad nearly 1,400 years ago.
