Sentence examples for secular classes from inspiring English sources

My mother, who attended the school in the thirties, remembers that the boys took off their yarmulkes for secular classes.

Yeshiva students begin Judaic studies at 8 a.m. before switching to secular classes that can last until 8 p.m., leaving little time for basketball practice.

This is the exact inverse of countries like Turkey and Egypt where national development and professional training have benefited almost exclusively the secular classes.

Probably derived from a scarf worn by the secular classes, it first appeared as a liturgical garment in the Frankish kingdom in the 9th century and was worn by all clergy as a liturgical garment by the 12th century.

The real problem, in a country where alcoholism is minimal, is Mr. Erdogan's "culture war" against the country's secular classes and the illiberal form of democracy that he is advancing.

He is undoubtedly an effective and shrewd politician, in that he initially offered a programme and policies that appealed to both the traditional and the more modern sectors of society, to religious people and to the more secular classes, and to both ethnic Turks and to minorities, especially the Kurds.

But for Turkey's secular class, all that was beside the point.

Turkey's secular class is still clearly uncomfortable with the choice.

Others argue that the trial has evolved into a power struggle between a secular class determined to preserve its power and an Islamic-inspired ruling party determined to strengthen its legitimacy and silence opponents.

Under the law, all students must take a class each year on Roman Catholic dogma, taught by church appointees and intended for practicing Catholics, or an alternative, secular class on world religions that education officials say offers a historical approach but opposition party leaders contend is similar to the Catholicism class.

I was born in Algeria in the mid-1980s in a middle-class, secular family deeply attached to democratic values.