Sentence examples for on a sectarian from inspiring English sources

But there were glimmers of how frustration and anger at rising insecurity could take on a sectarian character.

The global body has funded one of its largest humanitarian drives ever to aid Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Turkey, but has been unable to broker a political solution to the fighting, which continues to take on a sectarian feel.

She lowered her voice and looked around as if she was afraid someone might be listening, then continued: "They need one year to prepare a government for Iraq that is built not on a sectarian foundation.

In each district, seats were allocated on a sectarian basis, but voters could cast ballots for any candidate, with one vote for every available seat, regardless of sect.

Today's Iraqi Shiite parties are doing worse: they are legitimizing their rule on a sectarian basis.

"Those who created the crisis wanted us to separate from each other on a sectarian basis," Mr. Mahmoud said.

It should be plain enough that to throw in our lot on one side of a sectarian conflict in the Middle East could have catastrophic consequences both for regional stability and for our own interests.

We have another brutal Middle East autocrat holding power on behalf of a sectarian minority.

Syria, Mr. Nasser said, was on the verge of a sectarian war and was becoming a "battlefield for external agendas".

There are fears in Iraq that the country is once again on the brink of a sectarian war.

He said: "They are done purely on the basis of a sectarian head count and it drives the 'us and them' politics and that is very unhealthy for us as a society".