Sentence examples for religious quarrel from inspiring English sources

They culminated in a religious quarrel that led to a civil war in 1847.

The deal likely involved Stivetts and Tucker, two players involved in Boston's religious quarrel from the previous season.

In the religious quarrels the new emperor, an ally of Protestant states, showed great restraint and allowed himself to be guided mainly by political motives.

North Carolina's growth was hampered by restrictions on shipping tobacco imposed by Virginia, by economic and religious quarrels with absentee proprietors that led to several uprisings, by war with the Tuscarora people (1711 13), and by coastal piracy involving Blackbeard (Edward Teach) and others.

The religious quarrels in which Descartes's ideas embroiled both himself and his followers are too numerous to count, ranging from the character of transubstantiation in the Eucharist to the possibility that the animal kingdom might exhibit something other than the Bible's apparent "fixity of the species".

In particular, a rising naval power is challenging an established hegemon, and a "powder keg" region replete with ethnic and religious quarrels looks less stable by the day.

The beginning there was political rather than religious, a quarrel between the king and the pope of the sort that had occurred in the Middle Ages without resulting in a permanent schism and might not have in this instance save for the overall European situation.

Secular and religious camps quarrelled over whether Joan of Arc was a saint or a canny country lass; republicans and monarchists wrangled over the relative merits or barbarity of the French revolution and the Ancien Régime; Marxists and non-Marxists differed on the influence of class.

There may have been religious overtones in the quarrel between Cambyses and Darius on the one hand and the false Bardiya a magus, or Median priest on the other.

As well as its fine story-telling, Mr Kaplan's book has the great merit of reinstating religion and quarrels about religious practice at the heart of the modern European history where they clearly belong.

It continued to be an important city and was briefly a capital under the rule of the Seljuqs, but in the 12th century it was weakened by the fierce quarrels of rival religious sects.