Sentence examples for sects says from inspiring English sources

"The threat of foreign conquest is enough to unite Iraq's sects," says a Baath party official.

The civil war divided most of America's Protestant sects, says Mark Noll of the University of Notre Dame.

Back then there were "people from all ages and different religions and sects", says a young man recently released after nine months detained by security forces.

"For those who still doubt it, we were also among the victims of these sects," says Jamal Ikazban, the local MP and a former social worker in Molenbeek.

"The main problem is with the sects," said Mohammed al-Jawahri, deputy director of curriculum at the Education Ministry.

Jay Johnson, a professor at Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union who has studied doomsday religious sects, said such beliefs tend to coincide with times of strife or change and "sometimes have troubling consequences".

"As a Russian Orthodox believer, I am against the sects," said Valeriya Gubareva, a retired teacher, who was asked about Protestants as she was leaving a Russian Orthodox church here.

Prahbu Nath Ohja, the officer appointed as liaison to the various sects, said authorities had hoped to avoid the problems that occurred in 1998 when the Kumbh Mela was last held in Haridwar: an angry scuffle broke out between the Juna and the Niranjani schools not long before the dip.