Sentence examples for religious compatriots from inspiring English sources

Henceforth the Azerbaijani Turks of Caucasia were separated from the majority of their linguistic and religious compatriots, who remained in Iran.

Thereafter the Azerbaijani Turks of Caucasia were separated from the majority of their linguistic and religious compatriots, who remained in Iran.

The Golden Rule (who but a psychopath could disagree with it?) is a touchstone for atheists if they feel obliged to prove that they follow a moral code recognizable to their religious compatriots.

In 2007, the Times reported that a protest of the A.K.P. by hundreds of thousands of Turkish secularists was motivated in part by a "fear" of the life styles of their more religious compatriots — by "snobbish" complaints that "religious Turks were uneducated and poor" and that "their pesky prayer rugs got underfoot in hospital halls".

The concern expressed here, presumably, is this: for all we reasonably believe, citizens who are willing to coerce their compatriots for religious reasons will use their political power to advance their sectarian agenda using the power of the state to persecute heretics, impose orthodoxy, and enact stringent morals laws.

The Glorious Revolution of 1688, although it had restored the "presbyterian polity of the kirk", nevertheless left many "disappointed at the low moral tone and lack of religious enthusiasm of their compatriots".

After all, Rick votes to enact a law that authorizes state coercion even though he believes that the only plausible rationale for that decision includes religious claims that many of his compatriots find utterly unpersuasive.

Finally, it is with some concern that we note that those who say they are "very religious" are somewhat more inclined than their compatriots to see extremist groups like Daesh or al Qaeda to be "mostly right," while disagreeing with things they have done.

They tend to be better educated and more Western-oriented than their Muslim compatriots and often utilize family or religious ties abroad to emigrate.

"He is like a martyr for inter-religious dialogue," said his compatriot and fellow Jesuit, Jan Stuyt, in response to the awful news.Now at first sight, that's a rather curious concept.

In Vietnam and China religious communities are not too badly treated by their compatriots but are restricted by the state; and in Nigeria and Bangladesh practitioners of faith are more likely to suffer at the hands of fellow citizens than the government.The report is a reminder of the paradoxical relations in many parts of the world between majoritarian democracy and personal freedom.