Sentence examples for sects a from inspiring English sources

The Natha yogis share with similar esoteric sects a liking for paradox and enigmatic verse.

In Japanese sects, particularly in the Shingon and other Buddhist sects, a razor (made of gold in the Jōdo sects) is used for an actual or simulated tonsure of the head of the deceased.

Yet, while the Marxist faith in central planning is now confined to a few dingy sects, a quasi-religious belief in free markets continues to shape the policies of governments.

In coordination with Turkey, the United States has been exploring how to deal with the possibility of a civil war among Syria's Alawite, Druse, Christian and Sunni sects, a conflict that could quickly ignite other tensions in an already volatile region.

Posters echoed the government's contention that the uprising threatened Syria's fragile mosaic of a Sunni Muslim majority and minorities of Christians, Kurds and heterodox Muslim sects, a theme often repeated by officials seeking to rally popular support for the broadening crackdown.

If correct, this hypothesis tends to cast doubt on Graham's suggestion that the three series represent the views of three feuding Mohist sects, a "Purist" group devoted to defending the true teachings of Mozi and two politically power-hungry rivals, a "Compromiser" faction that diluted the teachings and a "Reactionary" wing that betrayed them (1989, p. 53).

Amid the sect, a woman with somewhat Asian features stands out.

A traitor to his sect, a stooge of neighboring Iran's Shiite government, and a rank opportunist, they say.

Sinjar is home to several thousand members of the Yazidi sect, a religious minority with roots in Islam and Zoroastrianism.

He eventually broke with them to found his own sect, a group that existed until the 5th century in Africa.

Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin described the Jews as "comprising a single exploiting sect, a kind of blood-sucking people".