Sentence examples for sectarian party from inspiring English sources

First, the Labour party has made a clear promise that it is no longer a sectarian party.

Romney can't raise the shield of secularism, as Kennedy did, because he is seeking the nomination of a sectarian party that's built on a religious test.

To remain in power, May had to cobble together a government with the support of the Democratic Unionists, an avowedly sectarian party from Northern Ireland.

But now that Hezbollah has stood by Mr. Assad during his deadly yearlong crackdown on the uprising against his rule, Mazen sees Hezbollah as a sectarian party that supports Mr. Assad because his opponents are mainly Sunnis.

The Democratic Center is a sectarian party: over recent years, its members have spoken about saving the country from "atheist communism"; they have also suggested that anyone who didn't vote for Uribe in the last election was an accomplice of the terrorists.

Mr. Maliki is himself the leader of a Shiite sectarian party, but his crackdown on Shiite militias last year — followed by the provincial elections — has somewhat diminished fears, both here and in the United States, that Iran would dictate Iraq's internal politics and external diplomacy.

Until 23 June he would do well to avoid sectarian party-political playground behaviour and acquire a loftier demeanour, an air of authority on the nation's future.

He criticized sectarian parties for teaching hate in their religious schools.

Provincial elections last January showed diminishing popular support for religious or purely sectarian parties.

That would allow him, if elected, to cement Dawa's position ahead of the more hardline sectarian parties.

Religious and sectarian parties in Iraq also swept its first elections, and, after they performed badly, the Iraqi public swung away from them toward more secular, pluralistic parties.