Sentence examples for sectarian fissure from inspiring English sources
The sectarian fissure is evident in the rhetoric of the Sunni rebellion here: militants over the last few days have referred to Iraq's army as a force loyal to Iran, while many Shiites here have cast the formerly peaceful Sunni protesters as Muslim extremists beholden to Al Qaeda.
Sectarian fissures still gape.
But the latest problems have laid bare the sectarian fissures still pervasive in society.
Republicans, meanwhile, seized on Obama's plan, saying it wouldn't do enough to heal the country's sectarian fissures.
There were sectarian fissures within this establishment, disagreements about how far the United States should go in fighting Communism, but it took two decades for the fissures to deepen and the establishment to implode.
It is feared that proof or even strong suspicion of Hizbullah's guilt in the murders may widen sectarian fissures and perhaps spark a new round of civil war.Such fears recently prompted a sudden bustle of diplomacy in Beirut.
The impasse over the election — which is now almost certain to slip past a constitutional deadline set for January — has laid bare more than Iraq's ethnic and sectarian fissures, which simmer never far from the surface.
The operation is deepening the country's sectarian and political fissures, ones American military officials repeatedly urged Iraqi leaders to address during the past months of decreased attacks.
Pakistani officials, diplomats and aid workers warn that while civil unrest has so far been averted, the aftermath of the worst-ever flooding in Pakistan could destabilize the country in the months to come and aggravate the already deep regional, sectarian and class fissures.
Militant groups are increasingly active in Iraq, and their attacks are often designed to break open political fissures along sectarian lines.
Russian fears of a Lebanese-style civil war breaking out in Syria, with the country fissuring on sectarian lines, may not be as far fetched in three months' time as they currently seem.
