Sentence examples for secular mandate from inspiring English sources

The current constitution, which enshrines Turkey's secular mandate, has been amended several times since it was put in place, and most Turkish intellectuals argue that it should be scrapped entirely.

Imposing this radical secular mandate on traditional religious believers gives extreme secular, collectivist activists great pleasure, perhaps even more than sex itself.

The vast majority of Turkey's 81 million citizens are Muslims, but many embrace the constitutionally mandated secular nature of politics and government.

Allen neglects one argument for her thesis that the United States is a "secular project": the Constitution mandates the establishment of a political truth by guaranteeing each state the same form of government ("republican").

The army has its guns and now runs the country; both the Islamists and the liberals have won electoral mandates; and the secular youth from Tahrir feel empowered by the street — by their now proven ability to mobilize and to fight whenever they see things going awry.

Ordinarily, the kind of religious persecution that engenders religious conflict is legitimated by appeal to secular reasons of the sort mandated by the DRR.

Alone among secular women's colleges, its charter mandated a female president and an all-female faculty.

But both are a long way from the claim that Christians "alone" are "mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns".

Sara Diamond, who has written several books about evangelical movements in America, has succinctly defined the philosophy that resulted from Schaeffer's interpretation: "Christians, and Christians alone, are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns".

Or, as sociologist Sara Diamond puts it, they "alone are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns -- and there is no consensus on when that might be".

(This is the stated goal of today's American Dominionists -- one of whose pastoral leaders is Ted Cruz's father. The defining concept of dominionism is "that Christians alone are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns").