Sentence examples for sectarian system from inspiring English sources

Detractors felt Karami epitomised Lebanon's antediluvian sectarian system.

He stared for a moment at a placard that read, "Change the sectarian system — toward a state of citizenship".

Under a complex sectarian system, the president is a Maronite Christian, the prime minister is a Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament is a Shia.

Prime Minister Abadi is a national hero, but in Iraq's tricky sectarian system, that doesn't mean he will win the election.

In his testimony this week before Congress, Ryan C. Crocker, the American ambassador, said that "there is palpable frustration in Baghdad over the sectarian system that was used to divide the spoils of the state in the last few years".

Haider al-Abbadi, a member of Mr. Maliki's party in Parliament, referring to the beginning of widespread sectarian killings, said, "What happened in 2006 showed people a taste of what will happen in a sectarian system".

He was concerned that delay might result in the creation of denominational colleges, striking a blow to his dream of a high quality non-sectarian system of post-secondary education.

However Northern Ireland, with its competing sectarian bloc system, defies normal political gravity.

In 2011, a movement against Lebanon's sectarian political system was inspired by the Arab Spring revolutions.

No one will," says Adeeb Awad, a church official in Lebanon, where a sectarian political system ensures representation by quota; the country's non-executive president must, for instance, be a Christian.Some Christians even predict a total exodus from the region.

Yet the Shiite faithful in Lebanon revere him, both as a religious figure and as a leader who gained for them a modicum of respect in the country's sectarian political system long dominated by Christians and Sunni Muslim barons.