Sentence examples for sectarian resistance from inspiring English sources

Because of sectarian resistance, mainly from Anglican and Catholic groups, so-called national schools were introduced alongside denominational schools in 1848 as a dual system, administered by two corresponding boards.

There was some sectarian resistance initially to an Irish club participating in Scottish football, but Hibs established themselves as a force in Scottish football in the 1880s.

Detente between Iran and the United States - Iraq's two strongest allies - could allay sectarian conflict and unify resistance to the Islamic State, their argument goes.

But to do so again could further tarnish its reputation here, making it look more and more like a sectarian militia than the resistance movement to Israel it considers itself.

That the ensuing resistance and sectarian violence, the unleashing and emboldening of Iran, and the resultant regional insecurity were unanticipated was not accepted by many in the Arab World.

After the American invasion, in 2003, Saidiya became a base of Sunni resistance, but since last year vicious sectarian fighting has divided its streets between Sunni and Shia, with front lines crisscrossing the district; the highway separating Saidiya from the Shiite area of Bayya, to the northwest, now marks an impassable boundary.

It was recalibrated during the occupation of Iraq, when US forces led by General Petraeus sponsored an El Salvador-style dirty war of sectarian death squads to weaken the Iraqi resistance.

Between 2004 and 2009, a sectarian civil war merged with a war of "resistance" by nationalist Iraqis, and with a ruthless jihadist campaign by foreign al-Qaida supporters, to plunge Iraq into a three-way bloodbath of roadside bombs, assassinations and high-explosive shelling of villages and towns.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry issued a statement urging resistance to the attackers' efforts to feed sectarian divides, plunge the country into chaos and paralyze civil life.

"How can a nation provide such a wonderful example of resistance and sacrifice," he asked, "while promoting sectarian differences?" Good question.

This relationship between the clandestine and armed wings of the resistance formed the basis of the non-sectarian "national unity" strategy developed in the 1980s by Xanana Gusmão.