Sentence examples for communal tensions from inspiring English sources

Then there are the communal tensions, the tribalism, the religious bigotry.

For all her faults, Ms Mayawati was credited with reducing caste and communal tensions.

Those communal tensions have subsided thanks in part to two decades of faster economic growth.

The separatists have an interest both in increasing communal tensions and in enlarging Kashmir's Muslim majority.

Is it still simmering with communal tensions or history's most successful melting pot?

But communal tensions could be eased greatly if India's Muslim neighbour was no longer seen as enemy number one.

But such changes, she added, might contribute to rising inter-communal tensions in the short term.

Unlike the Taliban, which was dominated by a single Pushtun tribe, keen to assert its rights over other ethnic groups, the CIC is creaking with inter-communal tensions.

We have all seen what happens when those relationships are not working, with everything from inter-communal tensions to religious and far-right extremism rising to the surface.

While the 2005 elections were heralded as an important marker on the road to democracy, they actually served to exacerbate inter-communal tensions in Iraq as politicians increasingly used sectarianism to mobilise support.

What this meant was reasonably clear: the return of power into Iraqi hands as soon as made sense; no Saddam or Saddam clones in government; no irresolvable inter-communal tensions; established individual and minority rights; minimum corruption and incompetence; and restored services.