They initially welcomed the invading force but then quickly became disillusioned at Garibaldi's reluctance to order the breakup of secular, landed estates.
Bush's defenders argued that Iraq was a largely secular land in which many Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds lived together amicably and frequently intermarried.
If that were the case, the minister suggested, he would be guilty of polygamy, illegal since 1993 under the laws of this determinedly secular land, and should forfeit the French citizenship he acquired by marriage in 1999.
The workshop, which also produces a steady steam of more commercial stuff for whoever wants to buy it, is a jumble of icons, past and present, real and fictional — a reminder that, for a largely secular land, China has cycled through more than its share of gods in recent decades.
Tamimi now advocates for one secular state in all the land shared by Israelis and Palestinians.
Accordingly, Grandy et al. [37] and Leinweber et al. [38] found that strong predictive character of oxidation and the depletion rates of plant-derived lignins on the intensity of microbial transformations occurred both in less degraded systems, such as forest ecosystems, as well as in secular cropped lands.
Instead, the U.S. has, "by happy historical accident," all kinds of colleges and universities, every single sort of institution, from small liberal arts colleges to seminaries, church schools, secular schools, land-grant schools.
Benedict's opening address followed the publication of an interview in which a senior Vatican adviser described Britain as a "secular, pluralistic" land that had fallen prey to "a new, aggressive atheism".
Those looking for that proverbial pullback, or trapped in secular bear land, will be forced to cover shorts and go long, scrambling for the performance that eluded them this past year.
Osbert, however, continued to call himself "archdeacon" even though he held land as a secular lord, including lands in Lacy and Skipton.
