Sentence examples for confessional states from inspiring English sources

There will be small ethnic and confessional states," he said.

"In other words, Israel will be the most important and the strongest state in a region that has been partitioned into ethnic and confessional states that are in agreement with each other.

Confessional states end badly.

It also shattered the "confessional state", creating a free market in religion.

Warily, slowly, the Pope became persuaded that with Mussolini's help Italy might become, once more, a "confessional state".

Why, if any Syrian wanted to see the results of a confessional state, they had only to look at the civil war in Lebanon.

Keen to stress his distance from Franco's confessional state, Mr Aznar said these were personal issues for individuals to decide.Most Spaniards would agree.

The problem, for now, is incoherence, not systematic persecution.Russia's difficulty in dealing with religious freedom reflects partly a dilemma about whether the country is a secular or a confessional state.

But what if Ireland had never achieved independence, had remained part of the British empire, had not become the confessional state it became after independence – would life have been better for Irish women?

Pufendorf's so-called works on religion (Pufendorf 2002a, 2002c, 1691b) engaged the same topics, as well as associated questions about religious unification and toleration, in the context of the early modern confessional state.

For me, this is quite a violent extension of how the idea of freedom of speech gets transformed into a kind of forced, confessional state.