Sentence examples for secular ethos from inspiring English sources

The claim is that too much youth service provision is directed at young Bengali men in particular and that too much of that provision is...well, the term "Islamisation" is used, and the complaint is that this goes against what should be a secular ethos in the service.

In Turkey, for example, the armed forces impose a strictly secular ethos on their personnel.

The very survival of the democratic and secular ethos of the Republic of India is now under siege.

Pollak's unlikely role as the political voice of the Hasidic community pushes back against Quebec's strict secular ethos.

In church we sang traditional hymns, but the verses had been rewritten to conform to the secular ethos of the members.

According to the latest data from Unicef, 79% of men and 83% of women age 15 and 24 embrace a secular ethos.

France, under a politically weak president, is battling with the legacy of empire, a secular republican ethos and its recent military interventions in Africa.

A group of parents tried to impose their will on the curriculum, he said, by undermining the secular education ethos in favour of an Islamic agenda.

Ankara University and Istanbul University still reflect the rationalist ethos of a secular republic; the Islamist tone of Turkey's present government affects newer campuses.If Iran is a little more open than most Arab countries, that is because of Shia Islam's stress on theology, and the interpretation of texts, as a continuous enterprise.

Anyway, the extermination camps evoke a secular, modern, industrial and bureaucratic ethos that overshadows the religious roots of Jew-hatred, the casual nature of racism that preceded the total isolation of Jews and their deportation, and the messy slaughter that typified the genocide on Soviet territory, where much of it was committed by non-Germans.

Later he went to Sandford Park, nominally secular but in effect imbued with the Protestant ethos.