Sentence examples for sectarian factions from inspiring English sources

The incidents aroused renewed concern that Lebanon's sectarian factions would once again be dragged into the conflicts of its neighbor.

The incidents aroused renewed concern that Lebanon's sectarian factions would again be dragged into the conflicts of its neighbor.

But supporting sectarian factions without fuelling an even larger conflagration would require a deftness that the American military has seldom displayed thus far.

Sectarian factions supported by international powers violently tore the city into two halves along the so-called Green Line: Christians in east Beirut and Muslims in the west.

The disqualifications set off angry demonstrations and accusations that threatened to further marginalize Iraq's Sunni minority and undermine efforts to form a government that folded in all of Iraq's ethnic and sectarian factions.

Later, with a hint of impatience in his words, he urged Iraq's leaders to unite the country's deeply divided ethnic and sectarian factions and to incorporate them all into government and security forces.

Even the Alawite heartland [of Assad's sectarian faction] was coming under fire.

When an event or a movement labels itself "People's," it's usually a bad sign, a way for some sectarian faction to claim, almost always falsely, the mantle of the masses.

Iraq's politicians have yet to pass the legislation that the Americans hope will reconcile the country's feuding ethnic-sectarian factions.

The Islamic Republic sponsors several armed and virulently sectarian Shia factions.

And, analysts warn, even if the army abandons some areas, that could simply open the way to fighting among sectarian and political factions.