Sentence examples for sect on from inspiring English sources
In Fallujah, the capital of a Sunni rebellion in 2004, Muamer, a 25-year-old teacher who once fought the Americans, complained that his sect — on top during the Saddam era — had become the "forgotten one".
His English companions were terrified, but a group of Moravians (a German Protestant sect) on board simply knelt before their maker and sang hymns.
The state raided the ranch in 2008 and gathered evidence that has led to the convictions of seven other men in the sect on similar charges.
The Therapeutae had, in addition to the Old Testament, books composed by the founders of their sect on the allegorical method of interpreting Scripture.
Followers of the Barelvi sect, on the other hand, believe in mysticism, revere saints and shrines, and are considered to be tolerant and accommodating of other faiths.
In 1995 Murakami returned to Japan, prompted by the Kōbe earthquake and by the sarin gas attack carried out by the AUM Shinrikyo religious sect on a Tokyo subway.
But when you feel the depth of the rage against the Assad government and contemplate the sporadic but barbaric sect-on-sect violence, you can't imagine any peace deal happening or holding — not without international peacekeepers on the ground to enforce it.
Sheik Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulazeez, who security officials say is a Boko Haram commander, called on sect members on Monday to halt attacks that have killed hundreds since the start of an uprising to carve out an Islamic state in Nigeria in 2009.
Mr. Levin then helped arrange his visits to a Williamsburg synagogue and a Borough Park yeshiva — both affiliated with relatively minor sects — on Sunday.
So far, though, the attacks do not appear to have turned the political tensions into violence between the sects on the streets.
If the situation deteriorates, Mahed said, he will flee to his hometown in a Druse area of southern Syria because "Jaramana will be a battlefield between many sects, on top of the war between the governmental forces and armed groups".
