Sentence examples for form of sectarian from inspiring English sources

The bombs exploded near religious sites in Kabul and the northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif as worshippers gathered, and were a rare form of sectarian violence in the country.

The firm and occasionally oppressive tactics of exilarchs and geonim generated anti-rabbinic reactions in the form of sectarian and messianic revolts, especially in outlying areas where enforcement was difficult.

The rebels said they were "defending their veiled sisters against oppression", a reference to the fact that Tunisia's president dismisses the hijab as an alien form of "sectarian dress" and has sent police to toy shops to seize dolls with scarves.Among most Muslims, who live between such extremes, two broad trends have emerged.

He considers it positively as a corrective to any form of sectarian dogmatism.

Put most forcefully, public reason is a sham: it purports to be an impartial or neutral method of moral or political justification, but it is, in fact, a form of sectarian secularism or modern liberalism masquerading as something more inclusive.

They adopted some of the worst forms of sectarian and authoritarian politics...

Telly asked us to sympathise with the devil last week, come he in the form of a sectarian killer, a tyrannical king, or a "market analyst".

But it remains far from clear who supports the insurgency or whether it is even the most deadly actor in Nigeria, despite the horror of its actions, which often take the form of church bombings and sectarian attacks.

Such worries prompted Scotland's first minister, Jack McConnell, to announce plans last week for pupils from religious and secular schools to be brought together for activities like drama and sport.Many argue that all religious schools are a form of segregation, and so worsen sectarian relations.

A June 23 , 2009report from Al Jazeera (English) by Josh Rushing, "Fault Lines - Religion in the Military", expertly covers a topic the US media has been reluctant to address: an aggressive effort, often abusive, coercive and even illegal, to advance a heavily sectarian, supremacist form of Christianity in the United States military.

Heffron, alive to the need for a limited form of state support to placate sectarian conflict that could destroy the government, permitted Treasurer Jack Renshaw to include state support for school laboratories and a means-tested allowance to school students in the 1963 budget.