Sentence examples for over the secular from inspiring English sources

Religious organisations also have natural advantages over the secular kind.

That change reflected the triumph of northern Yemen's more conservative Islamic culture over the secular and Marxist south after North and South Yemen united in 1990.

7. What do you think of the evangelical Christian movement known as Dominionism and the idea that Christians, and only Christians, should hold dominion over the secular institutions of the earth?

When Shiites voted for religious parties in large numbers in an election in 2005, it was more an effort to show their numbers, than a victory of the religious over the secular.

There is little sign of the political crisis that threatens to engulf Turkey, and provokes my visit.This crisis is over the secular inheritance of Ataturk, father of modern Turkey, who abolished the Ottoman sultanate and the caliphate in the 1920s, and moved the capital to Ankara.

AN ARTICLE this week in the New York Times, alleging that the United States and Israel are hatching a plot to destabilise a Hamas-run Palestinian Authority (PA) by starving it of funds, caused a minor furore and highlighted divisions over what to do about the Islamist party's resounding victory over the secular Fatah in last month's general election.

Heretics who admitted their errors but refused to recant were handed over to the secular authorities and burned at the stake.

When the Satmar schism boiled over into the secular courts, Mr. Brach was named a plaintiff in a lawsuit by the Aroynem.

But since the Vietnam draft ended, college professors like me have rarely had the obligation, or the opportunity, to hand bad students over to the secular arm.

For them, the world is divided into religious people and secular people, and we would all be better off if the religious recognised their mistake and came over to the secular side.

Some classics, like "Lord of the Rings," find a warm reception in the Christian market, and many writers and musicians, like the novelist Jan Karon or the singer Amy Grant, cross over to the secular side.