Sentence examples for religious distinctions from inspiring English sources

Neither religious distinctions — Orthodox, Catholic, Muslim — nor ethnic ones are of any consequence.

As a result of these developments, the social and religious distinctions between Zen practice and Confucianism became blurred.

What may be clear from this story — call it The Case of the First Catholic Protestant Senator — is that in America, religious distinctions matter less all the time.

They each just want to win by 50.01 percent, by using fear of the outsider and drawing cultural or religious distinctions between their citizens to garner just enough votes to squeak by.

Actually academic "diversity" has a quite delimited range having to do with obvious racial, ethnic, sexual and religious distinctions: Some folks are black, some white; some straight, some gay; some are Hispanic, some Asian-Americans, some Methodists, some Muslims.

However, prevalence figures according to place of residence may not be an indicator of where FGM has actually taken place, the authors warn: "The Nigerian population is becoming increasingly mobile, both socially and economically, resulting in increased intermarriage and a blurring of traditional places of residence, ethnicity and religious distinctions in the practice of FGM".

The law, he said, made no religious distinction: all were entitled to equal protection.

Saban later issued a statement saying that he regretted making a "religious distinction as opposed to a geographical one," saying he favors scrutiny of people from countries where the Islamic State has strongholds.

What we are likely to see in Egypt is not a repeat of Iran, where fundamentalists took undisputed power, but a repeat of Iraq, where Sunni religious parties did well initially but started to fade, divide and evolve as the powerful Sunni preference for laymen of no particular religious distinction comes to the foreground.

Consequently, there is no religious distinction being imposed.

Since the most recent terrorist attacks, some politicians have suggested barring Syrian refugees, if they are Muslim, from the United States, while others, including Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, have not made a religious distinction.