Sentence examples for mix of sects from inspiring English sources

Syria and Lebanon, both of which are a mix of sects and ethnicities, would be especially vulnerable to fallout.

Like the sectarian battles in Iraq after the American invasion, the recent violence between Arabs and Kurds in Syria indicates the further unraveling of a society whose mix of sects, identities and traditions were held together by the yoke of a dictator.

Before the war, Aleppo's wealth of ancient buildings and its cosmopolitan mix of sects and peoples — Sunni Arabs, Shiites, Kurds, Turkmen, Alawites, Circassians, Chechens, Greeks, Assyrian and Armenian Christians, and even a few Jews — made it a matchless place in the modern Middle East.

Lebanon's mix of religious sects, with their divided loyalties on the Syrian conflict, in some ways makes it the least hospitable destination for the refugees.

The country comprises a mix of faiths, sects and ethnic groups.

The Syrian conflict has spilled over into neighboring countries with similarly volatile mixes of religious sects and political affiliations.

He was selling cellphone credits and plastic flowers, struggling to keep his mother and five young siblings afloat, when an insurgent recruiter in western Baghdad, a man in his 30s who is a regular customer, offered him cash last spring to be part of an insurgent group whose motivations were a mix of money and sect.

It has a potentially explosive mix of religious groups and sects.

This mix of minorities, confused by divisions within sects and ever-shifting alliances inside and between them, has a tendency to explode, as it did during Lebanon's gruelling civil war in 1975-90.

The most recent taxonomic treatment of sects.

By contrast, the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of sects.