Sentence examples for sectarian foundations from inspiring English sources
The very idea that it is possible to cordon off personal religious beliefs from a secular town square depends on Protestant assumptions about what counts as "religion," even if we now mask these sectarian foundations with labels like "Judeo-Christian".
Conservative Christian activists hold those sectarian foundations more dearly than they admit, and they are challenging the Obama administration's efforts to frame access to contraception and same-sex marriage as civil rights immune to the veto of "private" conscience.
She lowered her voice and looked around as if she was afraid someone might be listening, then continued: "They need one year to prepare a government for Iraq that is built not on a sectarian foundation.
The non-sectarian foundation provides scholarships to enable New York women to pursue carreers in certain fields; at SUNY the funds underwrite education in International Relations and Global Affairs, the topic I'd been invited to address.
"Our institutions are based on ideological, sectarian and ethnic foundations.
"He was one who laid the foundation of violent sectarian extremism in country.
The population is well educated; there are no sectarian or tribal divides; and there is a foundation of civil society.
They also lay the foundations for a strongly democratic political thought and a deep critique of the pretensions of Scripture and sectarian religion.
The Syrian civil war is setting off a contagious sectarian conflict beyond the country's borders, reigniting long-simmering tensions between Sunnis and Shiites, and, experts fear, shaking the foundations of countries cobbled together after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Sectarian tensions are rising.
