Sentence examples for secular foundations from inspiring English sources

The opposition Congress party, which prides itself as the guardian of India's secular foundations, has seized on the row.

The military was used to fend off the rise of any pro-Islamic parties or those that threatened the secular foundations of the state.

If thuggish elements in the party's Hindu nationalist family are not quickly controlled, Hindu-Muslim violence that weakens India's unity and secular foundations could spread.

Second, the secular foundations of modern Turkey have been essential to creating this most permissive of Muslim societies; they should not be compromised without a fight, especially in a Middle Eastern environment where democracy is rare and Islamism potent.

And she had followed her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, who was India's prime minister for its first 17 years after independence, and a key architect of its quasi-socialist economy, its constitutional democracy and its secular foundations.

In a country proud of its secular foundations, pressure is now mounting on Mr Modi to break his silence over the death of 50-year-old Mohammed Akhlaq, as the row has escalated and embroiled several members of his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

But my problem with modern Israeli politics is precisely that it has betrayed the vision of Herzl's idealistic and secular foundation.

"We're concerned that there is a transformation in the secular foundation of the country," said Lim Kit Siang, the head of the Democratic Action Party, an opposition party that represents Chinese.

In spite of the party's nonconfessional mandate, the AKP draws significant support from nonsecular Turks and has faced objections from some segments of Turkish society that it harbours an Islamist agenda that could undermine Turkey's secular foundation.

Last week 60 Bollywood personalities called on their countrymen to vote for the incumbent Congress party, despite its reputation for corruption and economic mismanagement after 10 years in power, " to protect our country's secular foundation".

More than a dozen of France's beach towns had banned the burkini, citing that the swimming outerwear disturbs France's secular foundation.