Sentence examples for sectarian shock from inspiring English sources
Aliaa's younger brother Abdulhameed described for me his own sectarian shock.
They are veterans of not one war, but in essence four, each shadowing the shifting arc of Iraq itself: from the "shock and awe" invasion to the bloody sectarian conflict that followed, from President Bush's "surge" in 2007 to President Obama's denouement.
Throughout those awful days, as his kidnappers kicked and punched him, applied electrical shocks to his genitals and insulted him with sectarian taunts, he could hear the chatter of gunfire and the crash of rocket-propelled grenades outside, where Hezbollah and its allies were taking control of the capital.
EVEN before the invasion three years ago, there were warnings that the shock of violent change could fragment Iraq into ethnic and sectarian parts.
News of the sectarian killing of popular Ahmadi Muslim shopkeeper Mr. Asad Shah has shocked the UK.
The reasons for this haste are still the subject of debate, but it is probable that Mountbatten wanted to shock the quarrelling parties into realizing that they were hurtling toward a sectarian precipice.
Even veteran reporters and community workers who thought they had seen it all came away shocked, and the police said that they had not witnessed such unrestrained sectarian hatred in 20 years or more.
Nearly 4,500 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives in a war that began with a "Shock and Awe" campaign of missiles pounding Baghdad, but later descended into a bloody sectarian struggle between long-oppressed majority Shi'ites and their former Sunni masters.
Sectarian tensions are rising.
Sectarian conflict has reemerged.
