Sentence examples for confessional lines from inspiring English sources

Marriage across confessional lines is common, as are conversions.

This occurred in both Glarus and Appenzell, the latter splitting along confessional lines into two half cantons in 1597.

Perhaps Lebanon, where political power is allocated along confessional lines (and boat-rocking changes of religious affiliation are virtually impossible) is the most perfectly post-Ottoman state.

As transitions appeared to be regressing, people increasingly chose to identify themselves along tribal or confessional lines, rather than political ones.

In the French wars of religion (1562 98) and the thirty years war, combatants crossed confessional lines so often that it was impossible to talk about solidly "Catholic" or "Protestant" populations.

Many are wonderful, and the Catholic ones in particular have been a route to the upper middle class for many clever children from that historically downtrodden group.Yet these schools are also part of an education system that remains starkly divided on confessional lines.

He has memories of being shunted to back-row pews for blacks at Immaculate Conception parish and even shunned from a confessional line by a white priest who pronounced it for whites only.

That gave his comments Monday a confessional air.

The man spoke in a tone that shifted worryingly between aggressive and confessional, punctuating his lines with two disembodied hands.

Each also took a solo turn onstage: Jacobson offered a halting confessional whose shaggy-dog punch line was that her father shot the pictures that appear above the counter in every Chinese take-out place in the country; Glazer did micro-impressions that made me think of Bob and Ray, because I am old enough to think of that.

This is, I think, too stark a contrast between the composer's public party-line music and private confessional pieces; the symphonies, too, speak in many ­voices.