Sentence examples for sectarian foes from inspiring English sources

From Syria to Egypt and beyond, partisans yearn to crush old rivals or sectarian foes once and for all.

Around 500 British-linked citizens are already thought to have travelled to the Middle East to fight with the Sunni Muslim group against its Alawite and Shia sectarian foes amid fears that more will join them.

Through their response to the Monk episode, Catholic leaders effectively redeployed anti-Catholic rhetoric to undermine the claims of Monk and her supporters, ultimately forging a distinctive form of Catholic anti-Protestantism and serving with their sectarian foes as partners, perhaps unwittingly, in a common antebellum project of defining and reasserting patriarchy.

The arc of his involvement with what is now the world's most menacing terrorist group mirrors many others who now hold senior positions in the group: first a battle against an invading army, then a score to be settled with an ancient sectarian foe, and now, a war that could be acting out an end of days prophecy.

An emerging alliance of former foes from across the sectarian spectrum has taken the tragedy as an opportunity to push its agenda.

Victory for his foes could unleash horrific sectarian vengeance against Syria's multiple minorities by the long-oppressed and now enraged 70% Sunni majority.

Assad, whose dominant Alawite minority is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, says he is fighting to preserve Syria's once tolerant patchwork of faiths; but after two years of fighting an uprising inspired by Egyptians' overthrow of military rule, his forces and their foes are both accused of sectarian atrocities.

Yet the attacks jangled the nerves of both Syria's friends and foes across the Arab world.The spectre of a sectarian war spiralling out of control and beyond borders, undoing fragile countries such as Lebanon and Jordan, is forcing Western governments into ever more anguished bouts of soul-searching.

He stressed that rumors of Syria breaking up into sectarian statelets in the near future were nothing but "psychological warfare" propagated by his foes.

Victory to Islam!"—is a common graffito on walls.Though the Houthis have never directly targeted Americans in Yemen, they say the American government is their ultimate foe and blame it for sowing chaos across the region, stirring sectarian tension among Muslims, and robbing Arabs of their dignity.

"Today's decision is the right thing to do, at the right time and for the right reasons," said Sinn Fein's president, Gerry Adams, who, along with Mr. McGuinness, helped to end the years of sectarian violence and give Roman Catholics an equal voice in a power-sharing government with former Protestant foes.