Sentence examples for sectarian interests from inspiring English sources

This playground of sectarian interests, where each community has its external backer, may be the perfect incubator of conspiracy theories.

Along with Lebanon's president, Michel Suleiman, he has tried to hold the balance between the country's many sectarian interests.

If Shiites present their claims in secular democratic language, the Sunnis will reject them as a cover for sectarian interests.

The Kurds, who have played the kingmakers in the past, will inevitably demand commitments on the future of Kirkuk, and other players will press their own sectarian interests.

Nouri al-Maliki, who has been criticised for putting Shia sectarian interests ahead of national goals, struck an uncompromising tone in his weekly national address.

Placating sectarian interests, the six seats of the Petroleum Administration were parceled out to Lebanon's six largest religious groups, a reflection of the power sharing agreements underpinning the country's governance.

To be sure, even before, Christian Democratic leaders had been eager to emphasise their distance from the churches and to create "catch-all parties", not sectarian interest groups.

It says its members too often act in their own sectarian interest and seem to have little commitment to national reconciliation.

(The wisdom tradition is famous for lacking all "sectarian" interest, so that no specific group or community or nation is addressed. The truth of wisdom pertains to all human beings without exception).

The party, which will defend three seats in the House of Commons, described electoral pacts as based on "sectarian, selfish interests".

Secularism means that matters of public policy and government are not under the influence, still less control, of sectarian religious interests.