Sentence examples for confessional system from inspiring English sources

Under Lebanon's confessional system of government, which apportions political posts by sect, the prime minister must be Sunni.

"We have no signs, no indications whatsoever, that in the next 10 years Lebanon will be headed toward a secular system or a less confessional system".

Québec supported a dual confessional system from the 1840s to the 1960s, with parallel structures for Roman Catholic and Protestant schooling at both the local and provincial levels.

Manitoba adopted Québec's dual confessional system in 1871, then changed to a unified, centralized nonsectarian system amid much controversy in 1896.

In fact, reports emerged last week claiming that Maliki insisted on the Iraqi prime minister being a Shi'a, a move that would push Iraq towards a confessional system like that of Lebanon.

Here, under what is known as the confessional system, political power is divided between religions: the president is a Maronite Christian; the speaker of Parliament a Shiite Muslim; and so on.

This includes abolishing sectarian appropriation of public jobs, replacing the confessional parliamentary system with a representative system, and permitting the execution of civil marriage on Lebanese soil.

But in Lebanon it is being refracted through the country's long-standing sectarian lens and confessional political system, raising the spectre of its own civil war, when sectarian-based kidnappings and killings were all too frequent.

His main challenge, one that threatens the confessional leadership directly, comes in the proposal of a new electoral approach that would overturn the first-past-the-post majoritarian system within each district into a proportional representation system.

Lebanon is a "confessional" religious parliamentary system.

But since Lebanon is a system of confessional baronies, no government wins full control of it through the ballot box.