Sentence examples for sectarian consensus from inspiring English sources
Hezbollah insists the government is no longer legitimate without the participation of Shiite ministers, who represent Lebanon's single largest community in a political system founded on the notion of sectarian consensus.
In an almost unprecedented move for a government traditionally built on sectarian consensus, the Sunni mufti, Mohammed Rashid Kabbani, led Friday prayers at the Serail on Dec. 1, the first day of Hezbollah's protests, when hundreds of thousands of Hezbollah's supporters converged on downtown.
Of the 22 countries of the Arab League (of which admittedly several are not in fact Arab), only three can lay much of claim to being true democracies, and even those have flaws.Iraq, despite continuing bloodshed, seems to have broken away from one-party rule but lacks a cross-sectarian consensus and decent institutions.
Judges who subscribed to a narrow view of the non-sectarian consensus routinely excluded atheists and others from giving witness testimony because they feared that there was no way to compel the witness to tell the truth.
Kabala's driving narrative is to uncover the existence of a Protestant non-sectarian consensus among religious and political leaders, which served to dampen both secular and religious radicalism within American politics.
Now, after several regional wars and a surge in sectarian strife, that consensus has been shattered.
Still, in practice, the nature of Lebanon's sectarian dealmaking requires that parliamentarians reach consensus over a candidate.
On Monday Saudi Arabia called for the quick formation of a national consensus government in Iraq, blaming Baghdad's "sectarian" policies against Sunni Arabs.
On Monday Saudi Arabia called for the quick formation of a national consensus government in Iraq, blaming Baghdad's "sectarian" policies against Sunni Arabs for the unrest now sweeping the country.
Instead, there appeared to be resigned consensus that Iraq's politicians were exploiting sectarian differences for their own gains - but that so too, were foreign powers.
Today, the little war-weary nation has been without a president for a year and a half because the sectarian government can't get it together for long enough to reach a consensus and elect a leader.
