Sentence examples for sectarian split from inspiring English sources

The countries providing most of the money for salaries — Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — have long been the fiercest opponents of Mr. Assad's rule, reflecting the sectarian split in the Arab world between Sunnis and Shiites.

If there was a weak Sunni turnout and the Shiites swept the polls, could this deepen the sectarian split in the country and inspire an all-out civil war?

The BBC's Bill Law has been to a mosque in the Bahraini capital Manama to get behind the continuing sectarian split.

Yet there is no denying the sharp sectarian split on this side of the Irish Sea, with most Catholics supporting a 'yes' vote and the majority of Protestants pushing for a 'no'no

Shia groups united in condemnation of Saudi Arabia while Sunni powers rallied behind the kingdom, hardening a sectarian split that has torn apart communities across the Middle East and nourished the jihadist ideology of Islamic State.

By a chain reaction of events, their saga, superstitions, spirituality and sectarian split (creating Christianity) would end up being assimilated (just as they formerly assimilated the Gods of older civilizations) into a sun-worshipping Roman empire that would define and dominate the Western world.

Yemen's sectarian splits have more to do with territory and dispersal of the treasury than with theology.

Yes, he was an authoritarian, but the result of his rule was that Tunisia, with moderate political tendencies and no serious ethnic or sectarian splits, has been poised since the 1980s for a democratic experiment.

The NIE's assessment is that over the next six to 12 months Mr Maliki's government will become even more precarious as sectarian splits deepen.In Anbar Mr Bush raised the prospect of withdrawing some troops, but only "based on a calm assessment by our military commanders on the conditions on the ground not a nervous reaction by Washington politicians".

The country is overwhelmingly Sunni, thereby avoiding destabilising sectarian splits.

The most deadly car bomb in more than a month exploded in Baghdad yesterday, as the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, attempted to persuade Iraqi leaders to end sectarian rivalries splitting the country.