Sentence examples for sectarian communities from inspiring English sources

Ethnic, linguistic and sectarian communities may continue to press for independence, and no doubt the Palestinians and Kurds deserve it.

For example, in 2005, in western Nineveh Province, our enemies had pitted sectarian communities against one another in a bloody civil war.

The Sunnis are one of the three major sectarian communities in Lebanon, along with the Shiites and the Maronites, and dominate in cities that include Sidon and Tripoli.

Local officials said the clashes began Saturday afternoon after a televised match between Scottish soccer teams that are traditionally supported by rival sectarian communities in Northern Ireland.

He had previously co-written a report for the Americans in Iraq, advocating the creation of Belfast-style "peace walls" to separate rival sectarian communities in Baghdad.

Mr. Ahmadinejad's trip had all the trappings of a typical state visit by a foreign leader, including news conferences, a formal lunch, and meetings with leaders of Lebanon's various sectarian communities.

Traditionally from wealthy, powerful families, a zaim presides over large patronage networks, is seen as the protector of his sectarian community and commands high levels of loyalty.

Though they are still dominated by Sunnis, the patrols' make-up increasingly reflects the ethnic and sectarian community they are guarding.

The Real Malcolm character is a watering down of Malcolm by mainstream representations such as Betty & Coretta that have no other means of treating his life with sympathy, as well as by Muslims for whom the vast majority of Malcolm's career as a Muslim leader takes place within a sectarian community that they cannot take seriously.

The Alawites, the sectarian community that dominates the top echelons of the regime, are circling the wagons and building popular militia forces to defend their own turf rather than seeking to re-conquer lost territory — IS now reportedly controls half of Syria — in the eastern and southern parts of the country.

Calendars of various sectarian Jewish communities deviated considerably from the normative calendar described above.