Sentence examples for sect being from inspiring English sources

"You don't expect people will see their similar sect being killed and not interfere.

But finally it exposes the dysfunctionality within the Republican party, whose conservative wing is behaving less like a mainstream electoral force than an ultra-left sect being advised by a petulant two-year-old.

It shows two captured officers from President Assad's Alawite sect being beheaded with a machete in the street, apparently by western-backed Free Syrian Army rebels, one of them a child.

From the Guardian's Patrick Wintour Plebgate: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cab Sect, being mauled by Sel Comm that has long thought he has wrongly usurped role of adviser on min. code.

Scholars have used the terms, cult and sect for groups that are in tension with the rest of society, a sect being a splinter from a larger movement (early Christianity was a Jewish sect), and a cult being less exclusive and often focused on a charismatic personality.

while some sources give a little lower estimate of 96.4 percent, with the most popular sect being the Hanafite school of Sunni Islam.

The storied sect is verging on extinction.

His sect is the majority there.

No religious sect is a party to the cause.

The Ahmadi sect is considered heretical by mainstream Muslims.

Headquarters of the sect are at Habikino, near Ōsaka.