Sentence examples for sectarian clash from inspiring English sources

We have to vow to God that we won't be dragged into a sectarian clash".

By nightfall, government officials were blaming a sectarian clash for the crisis, which was quickly dismissed by protest supporters, who said the goal was freedom for all Syrians and an end to authoritarian rule.

Brisard may have meant to attribute to a Muslim cleric the notion that the United States sought to incite a sectarian clash in Iraq, but that is not what he wrote.

Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, warned that "a deliberate attempt seems to be afoot by the extremists to turn the fight against militants into a sectarian clash and make the people fight against one another".

Supplying light weapons to some Syrian rebel groups is unlikely to decisively shift the balance of power in the war, and may simply prolong the stalemate while Syria disintegrates and civilians are slaughtered.Mr Malley warns that the Syrian civil war has been increasingly incorporated into the broader Sunni-Shiite sectarian clash, in which America must not be seen to take sides.

Though it involves the sectarian clash of Shiite and Sunni Muslims, it is in many ways a local power struggle.

Sectarian clashes raged for two days afterward.

Ten people died in sectarian clashes following the explosion.

Will bloody score-settling and sectarian clashes erupt anew?

Sectarian clashes in the Moluccas were not unusually troubling.

Sectarian clashes between young men hurling rocks and using knives and clubs have become common.