Sentence examples for sectarian character from inspiring English sources

But there were glimmers of how frustration and anger at rising insecurity could take on a sectarian character.

In recent months, as the Syrian civil war has taken on a sectarian character, Sunni-Shiite tensions have risen in Sidon, and Assir's sermons have become inflamed.

While acknowledging the sectarian character of the Maliki government and its failure to achieve conciliation at national level, Petraeus undemonstratively created facts on the ground.

From then on, its activities acquired a distinct sectarian character, which in the past it had tried to deny by supporting the Palestinian Sunni Islamic factions.

But he said the protests had not so far taken on a strong sectarian character and were mainly a response to years of broken promises and delays in carrying out political reforms.

Thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed since Mr Hussein's fall (see article).So far, however, the violence and coercion have yet to take on a plainly sectarian character.

As with their official statements, their cultural expressions assert their determination to preserve the uprising's peaceful, non-sectarian character.

Though many Cairenes are alarmed by the mayhem on the streets (in some places citizens have organised "popular committees" to protect their neighborhoods), the uprising has been embraced by all social classes, and demonstrators have pointed to its non-sectarian character.

Yet the facts do not show a great success: If the war is primarily sectarian in character as the headlines scream in leading international newspapers, then why are the Kurds -- the vast majority of whom are Sunnis -- not fighting alongside ISIS/Ba'ath, but rather enthusiastically against them?

But direct Saudi military involvement has already rendered the Yemen conflict more overtly sectarian, emphasizing its character as a growing proxy war.

No nuclear-control contract crafted in European luxury hotels is likely to survive for a decade amid spreading sectarian violence of that character.