Sentence examples for one of the sect from inspiring English sources

Hito-no-michi was compelled by the government to affiliate itself with one of the Sect Shintō denominations, Fusō-kyō; but its unorthodox teachings and growing strength (in 1934 it claimed a membership of 600,000) aroused the disfavour of the government.

BAGHDAD — The annual Shiite pilgrimage to Karbala, the burial place of Imam Hussein, one of the sect's most important figures, has run into a scheduling conflict of a contemporary sort: Saturday's provincial elections.

Sometimes the family members would be stashed in one of the FLDS communities; other times they would be separated and put up in one of the sect's Houses of Hiding.

When we spoke to her, shortly before our trip, she told us that the first time she went there one of the sect's members said that the Virgin had accused her of being a spy, which led to her getting kicked out of town.

It was founded in 780 and remains associated with the Hosso sect, one of the oldest sects within Japanese Buddhism.

But one member of the sect, Willie Jessop, speaking to reporters outside the courthouse here, as a hot wind whipped the trees on a day pushing 100 degrees, said that the settlement was flawed, but that half a loaf was good enough.

One subcluster of the sect.

They are descendants of one of the fundamentalist sect's founders, John Y . Barlow and lost a previous struggle for control in 2002 upon the death of Mr. Jeffs's father, Rulon, a former accountant who had ruled in a similarly autocratic manner and was said to have had as many as 70 wives.

Medical tests show one of the hospitalized sect followers has signs of apparent poisoning by sarin, the deadly nerve gas used in the attack in the Tokyo subways, and another has blood levels of a certain enzyme at 40 times what they should be, according to media reports here.

It is not a sufficient answer to say that "sacrilegious" is definite, because all subjects that in any way might be interpreted as offending the religious beliefs of any one of the 300 sects of the United States [n55] are banned in New York.

Regardless of whether the carnage is reliably traced to one of the jihad sects, it is true that the magnitude of the pain inflicted on America yesterday moves us into the very exclusive club of democracies for which terrorism is not peripheral, remote or episodic, but a horrible routine.