Sentence examples for of several sects from inspiring English sources

But the country also has Christians of several sects, Kurds, non-Alawite Shiites, and Turkomans, along with Palestinians, Armenians, Druze, Bedouin nomads, and even some Gypsies.

I had the fortune to get to know several Iraqis of various sects, learning about their rich culture and heritage.

Chan Buddhism — Zen, in Japan — was just of one of several popular sects when the Mongols arrived with their own Himalayan version of the faith.

Members of several small Christian sects who try to follow literally the precepts of Jesus have refused to participate in military service in many countries and have been willing to suffer the criminal or civil penalties that followed.

In 1993, during preparation for the criminal trial of several members of the sect, Mr. Johnston made handwritten notes that included the word "incind," apparently an abbreviation of "incendiary".

One of the sects then burned down the homes of several leaders of the other sect.

Satnami sect, any of several groups in India that have challenged political and religious authority by rallying around an understanding of God as satnam (from Sanskrit satyanaman, "he whose name is truth").

The Nurcu sect is one of several religious groups that is closely monitored by the army, which suspects that the sects are conspiring to replace the secular constitutional order with the rule of the Koran.

"[Worshipping a child] is one of the many preferred modes of devotion within several Hindu sects".

The Mouride sect is one of several Muslim organizations in Senegal.

The police officers were much like Zimbardo's prison guards -- twenty-somethings armed with authority, shielded from the public by riot helmets, almost certainly trained to perceive everyone around them as a threat, and provoked by the torching of several police cruisers by a small sect of anarchists the previous day.