Sentence examples similar to sectarian formulas from inspiring English sources

Bahrain was manipulated into a sectarian formula, and Yemen wrestled with the remarkable obstinacy of its leader.

Mr. Najafi succeeds another Sunni, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, as speaker, duplicating the existing formula for sectarian power-sharing.

The goal is to prevent Iraq from becoming another Lebanon, where sectarian tensions over a power-sharing formula dragged on in a fifteen-year civil war (despite repeated American diplomatic interventions and attempts to rebuild the national Army).

The outcome will turn on whether the pro-British party, whose longtime slogan was "Ulster says no," retreats to its rejectionist past and renounces the current formula for stabilizing the volatile sectarian politics of Ulster or follows the lead of its moderating leader, David Trimble, who is proposing a future based on a risk-taking accommodation with the pro-Irish republican movement.

Apparently, the Pentagon has a double super secret formula that it uses to distinguish sectarian killings (bad) from other deaths (not important); according to press reports, all deaths from car bombs are excluded, and one intelligence analyst told The Washington Post that "if a bullet went through the back of the head, it's sectarian.

And, perhaps more importantly, not among our Shia government allies whose initiatives have never included serious reconciliation and amnesty proposals, a formula for sharing oil revenues, disarming the murderous sectarian militias, a serious approach to the Kirkuk-Kurdistan question, or anything else that might even conceivably produce an end to the fighting.

In contrast, elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly and to the European Parliament are conducted by the single-transferable-vote formula, a form of proportional representation that virtually guarantees representation for the various sectarian parties.

In the face of seemingly intractable separatist and sectarian conflicts of his own, President Abdurrahman Wahid plunged into Middle East politics today, offering a complicated formula he said could resolve the deadlock over the status of Jerusalem.

And it is not a formula for early withdrawal: it would require American soldiers to act as guarantors along the sectarian fault lines.

Mr. Maliki can sound as stridently sectarian as anyone — he has relentlessly stoked sentiment against Baathists — but his program still hews to a formula that proved successful in the 2009 vote: law and order.

I am sectarian!