Sentence examples for secular issue from inspiring English sources

"Prison rape was a secular issue, but with moral overtones," Nolan told me.

This is a secular issue that was heightened by the supercycle, both up and down, of the last few years.

But after three months of violence, with delicate negotiations having resumed in Washington, the major Christian churches are deferring to the Palestinian political leadership to determine what they now say is a fundamentally secular issue of borders and sovereignty.

"The fact that Intel spoke to a secular issue, meaning demand, and not a cyclical one, meaning currency, suggests that if they are having a demand slowdown so are a bunch of the rest of the gang," said Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Company in Boston.

The matzah illustrates that this is not merely a secular issue: This is a Jewish issue as well.

Secular, issue-oriented, do-gooder television: it's a small niche to begin with.

In my memory, this is perhaps Pakistan's first example of a secular, issue-based special interest group succeeding in setting the country's political agenda by winning over the electorate and creating a vote bank that politicians know they must take seriously.

Tepeyac soon grew apart from the church, shifting its aim from religious concerns to secular issues like education and political advocacy.

And, although religion is never entirely absent from Islam's foremost democracy, this has been a contest fought overwhelmingly over secular issues.Yet the country's democracy is still young.

"I'm not a religious scholar, I'm a politician, and I do what politicians do, which is hopefully pass legislation to help the nation," said Mr. Ellison, who said he planned to focus on secular issues like increasing the federal minimum wage and getting health insurance for the uninsured.

It deserves attention from country's best minds who shouldn't be distracted by those who assert religious objections to a purely secular issue--but that's just what's happening.