Sentence examples for sectarian element from inspiring English sources

The war in northern Sadah Province has been especially volatile because of the sectarian element.

There is also a sectarian element: the Houthi rebels are Zaydis, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, and the government has often used extremist Sunnis as proxy forces.

It could thus be said that the regime has no Alawi identity – the beneficiaries come from all sects – although the mechanism of coercion has a sectarian element.

But the very small sectarian element in all this has inevitably moved from extra-parliamentary effort, to trying to mobilise anti-parliamentary effort.

Syria's civil war is the longest and deadliest conflict to emerge from uprisings that began sweeping the Arab world in 2011 and has developed a significant sectarian element.

The conflict in Sadah, which began in 2004, has a sectarian element: the Houthis are Zaidis, an offshoot of Shiite Islam that is fairly common in Yemen, and the government has used radical Sunni militants as proxy forces against them.

Sectarian elements on the ground do not necessarily respect hierarchy.

This is not to say that there are no sectarian elements within both the anti-government camp and the pro-government rallies.

While the number of foreign fighters crossing into Syria from Lebanon appears to be relatively small at the moment, there is a danger that such activity still could introduce more radicalized and sectarian elements that could exacerbate the conflict.

"In light of this, we have today written to the Rangers board requesting that they ban Celtic supporters from Ibrox until Celtic can prove that they have taken substantive action against the Green Brigade and other overtly sectarian elements within their support".

"In the past, there was no question it was sectarian, there were sectarian elements to what happened to me and people want to bury their head about that.