Sentence examples for sectarian in from inspiring English sources

There are persistent reports of gun battles there, and of killings that seem to be sectarian in nature.

Police were initially not treating it as a hate crime, but Bronwyn McGahan, a Sinn Fein assembly member, said she believe it was "sectarian in nature".

The attacks reinforced fears that the civil conflict in Syria, which has become increasingly sectarian in nature, now threatened to spill over the border.

As the conflict approaches the end of its second year, it "has become overtly sectarian in nature," said the report by a panel of the Human Rights Council.

According to the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the murder appeared to be sectarian in intent, committed soley to produce a wave of fear & bad blood.

Violence, largely sectarian in nature, has substantially increased after a period of relative calm following the withdrawal of the American military in December.

For Iraq, the death toll is unknown, in the tens of thousands, victims of the war, a nationalist uprising, sectarian in-fighting and jihadists attracted by the US presence.

At least 1,420 people were killed in sectarian violence in Iraq in August alone, U.N. figures showed on Monday.

There has been a spike in sectarian tension in Lebanon blamed on the conflict in neighbouring Syria.

Since the crackdown on religious extremists began in January, many people have died in sectarian terrorism in Karachi.

Several members of his family were murdered in sectarian killings in the last two years, and the rest have fled.