Sentence examples for sectary from inspiring English sources

Michael Gove, the justice sectary, and Oliver Letwin, the cabinet office minister, harbour deep doubts about the merits of Britain's EU membership.

But it heard very different advice from America's sectary of state, when she made her recent visit to the region.

Naa Acquah, general sectary of the University of Manchester's student union, says that rather than swaddling students in a blanket ban on difficult ideas, safe spaces offer much-need respite from discrimination.

Defence Sectary Michael Fallon said the first strike, aiming to dent the extremists ability to sell oil, was "extremely important".

Just in case there was any doubt about how the American airline and travel industry felt about the European cap-and-trade scheme, 19 industry groups wrote an open letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sectary of Transportation Ray LaHood praising them for their opposition.

Bunyan soon became recognized as a leader among the sectaries.

Among them were two main groups: the Ebionites probably the people called minim, or "sectaries," in the Talmud who accepted Jesus as the messiah but denied his divinity; and the Nazarenes, who regarded Jesus as both messiah and God yet still regarded the Torah as binding upon Jews.

In this atmosphere Bunyan became acquainted with the leading ideas of the Puritan sectaries, who believed that the striving for religious truth meant an obstinate personal search, relying on free grace revealed to the individual, and condemning all forms of public organization.

The sectaries have been identified variously as Zealots, an unnamed anti-Roman group, and especially Essenes.

That the groups had secret, presumably apocalyptic teachings is clear from the fact that some of the scrolls are in cryptographic script and reversed writing; yet, despite the sectaries' extreme piety and legalistic conservatism, they apparently were not unaware of Hellenism, to judge from the presence of Greek books at Qumrān.

"But where can we find faith in a nation of sectaries?" Coningsby asks.