Sentence examples for of certain sects from inspiring English sources

It is undeniable that there was a certain continuity between the apocalyptic visions (i.e., of the cataclysmic advent of God's kingdom) and documents of certain sects (Dead Sea Scrolls) and the writings, preserved in Hebrew, of the "explorers of the supernatural world" (yorde merkava).

So there's a curious topography to this ancient ritual that often produces a joy (and in the case of certain sects an ecstatic out of body experience) but little in the way of clear cut results.

It mostly depends on the synagogues/temples of certain sect of Judaism that you go to.

We've all been subjected to certain sects of that vomit-worthy fodder depending on what kind of friends we have and how willing they are to show us the kind of stuff they stumble across while trawling the depths of the web, but who's seen what?

The name was inspired by the thick style of stockings worn by certain sects of Hasidic women.

If, for example, a state should attempt to subsidize all sectarian schools without discrimination, it would necessarily violate the principle of equality because certain sects felt impelled to conduct a large number of such schools, others few, others none.

Iraqis living in the most devastated areas — Amiriya in the west and Dawra in the south — commonly say the killing has reached such a pitch that the purpose is not just to clear the area of a certain sect, but to clear it of people altogether.

Dr Rowan Williams' assertion that "there is not systematic persecution of Christians, apart from certain sects" tacitly permits the Chinese government to continue in their practices and attitudes towards organised religion.

It was a delicate subject; at first, he referred to them only as "the people of a certain sect".

In India, members of certain Buddhist sects who do not eat garlic use shallots instead.

Shaftesbury was highly critical of what he took to be the pernicious moral influence of certain Christian sects (such as Calvinism and other kinds of Puritanism) that emphasized the depravity of human nature and the jealousy of God.