Sentence examples for diverse sects from inspiring English sources

Although the majority of Syrians are Muslim, they are of diverse sects and ethnicities that have never rallied around a single party or leader.

This principle of toleration ultimately made it possible for diverse sects and schools of thought notwithstanding a wide range of difference in belief and practice to recognize and coexist with each other.

Israel easily filled the vacuum in the area, where the population's many and diverse sects had recently been abandoned by the government in terms of security and financial stability.

The sight of the Syrian delegation in Syria's seat at the Doha Summit headed by Moaz al-Khatib, with the flag of the Syrian Revolution in front of him, a "mosaic" of the Syrian people's diverse sects and ethnic groups beside and behind him, and to his left a woman, was a potent one indeed, morally and politically.

One of the many religions born in India is Hinduism, a collection of diverse doctrines, sects, and ways of life followed by the great majority of the population.

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed as a result of its defeat in World War I, the colonial powers Britain and France were right there, for their own interests, to impose their own order on the diverse tribes, sects and religions that make up the Arab East.

The most extreme among the diverse (and feuding) sects reject the secular Israeli state as a bastion of infidels.

Understandings about Islam also need to be improved, as the diverse traditions of sects such as the Sufis and Ahmadiyyas rarely make it into classroom instruction.

Our nation would be better served by advisors to the president -- and to the Washington political establishment, for that matter -- who have a deep understanding of the social fabric of the Middle East, including its diverse ethnic and religious sects, whose values, beliefs, and loyalties are often contradictory.

The introduction refers to Syrians "from our diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, and religious sects".

Previously, the culturally diverse units of the Shiite sect have been in conflict with the culturally diverse units of the Sunnis, and, in the time of Saddam Hussein, the culturally diverse Sunnis were eager to exterminate the culturally diverse Kurds.