Sentence examples for confessional division from inspiring English sources
The reformation in the early 16th century had led to a confessional division amongst the cantons: the central Swiss cantons including Lucerne had remained Catholic, while Zürich, Bern, Basel, Schaffhausen, and also the city of St. Gallen had become Protestant.
During Bullinger's rule, the confessional divisions of the Confederation were stabilised.
The two main political issues dividing the states had always been confessional schooling and the tripartite division of secondary schooling, with conservative states like Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg on one side and socially progressive states like Hessen and West Berlin on the other.
One of them narrowly escaped assassination on October 1st.This has all left Lebanon, whose fragile prosperity rests on a careful division of spoils among some 18 confessional groups, in a dangerous state of polarisation.
Typically there are two types of aesthetics (following the MFA division of poetry into two major camps): the narrative/formally uninventive/epiphany-based confessional or memoiristic short poem, and the experimental/avant-garde/language poetry camp, which takes its inspiration from deconstruction and makes a fetish of the insensibility of ordinary language.
Paik Hak-soon, of Seoul's Sejong Institute, believes that the media's new confessional spirit is a sign of the regime's strength, not weakness - and that the suggestion of serious divisions among the leadership is false.
My work is a confessional".
But they're not confessional".
