It is a tricky issue for religious minorities in predominantly Christian countries.The Netherlands provides an interesting, though secular, example of how people can respond to others' luck.
To take a secular example, liberal Western ideas like democracy and free markets might spread not because other nations are persuaded by principled arguments in favor of these ideas but because Western nations survive and prosper, which prompts others to emulate them.
These concepts also have secular parallels for example, in the turning points of one's life and in one's understanding of death.
Most Yamato-e dealt with secular affairs for example, the career of Sugawara Michizane or The Tale of Genji and there were even satirical works lampooning the behaviour of the court nobles.
Think of the more recent egregious examples: secular Muslims don't work with al Qaeda religious zealots, Saddam did not have WMD, Sunnis and Shia cannot work together, Koreans and Middle Easterners don't work together, and so on.
Secular liberals, for example, have stressed fascism's religious roots; Roman Catholic and Protestant scholars have emphasized its secular origins; social conservatives have pointed to its "socialist" and "populist" aspects; and social radicals have noted its defense of "capitalism" and "elitism".
The advantage of EMD method is to remove noise and non-stationary oscillations (for example, secular trends) that are irrelevant to the temporal weather events.
Our large population-based cohort with assessment points straddling the 2008 economic crisis in Iceland revealed a reduction in smoking rates from the short periods before and after the start of the crisis though our study could not disentangle the direct effects of the crisis with other mechanisms, for example, secular trends and changing cigarette prices.
The goliard songs dating from the 11th century are among the oldest examples of secular music.
One of the greatest examples of secular Islamic architecture is the Alhambra.
