Sentence examples for sectarian boundaries from inspiring English sources

But anger at the president crosses sectarian boundaries.

Hard-line religious conservatism, whether Protestant or Catholic, may be a minority cause but it certainly exists and can make common cause across sectarian boundaries.

Public space is generally defined as Catholic, Protestant, or mixed by far the smallest category and forays across sectarian boundaries are often avoided.

That conflict, also between Sunni and Shia communities, took the country to the brink, claimed thousands of lives and divided Baghdad along sectarian boundaries.

With its history of political turmoil, the city's ability to pull together a grand unified art project that dissolved sectarian boundaries has become a thing to celebrate, showing the world how far the city has come.

While Hariri, a Sunni Muslim, enjoyed the patronage of the Sunni world's powerhouse, Saudi Arabia, he was avowedly secular and his appeal transcended sectarian boundaries that had remained implacable for many compatriots throughout the 15-year civil war.

The US-brokered deal won agreement from the country's wartime leaders to stop the killing in return for entrenching their positions in a state built on sectarian institutions and boundaries.

"I came away from all of it feeling very good about the direction of things in the security arena, about what is going on at the local and provincial level in terms of people reaching out to each other, crossing tribal, sectarian and provincial boundaries to work together," Mr. Gates said.

These new boundaries, profoundly sectarian, clearly undermine the notion of nation-states.

Today, events in Syria and their spillover across the region are defying the notion of nation-state and reversing national boundaries into sectarian ones.

Both Sunni and Shia parts of the country are pressing for more regional autonomy, suggesting that political boundaries may soon cement sectarian divisions.