Sentence examples for secular opportunity from inspiring English sources

Alienation from citizenship or family and a loss of faith in secular opportunity create a pool of potential volunteers; preachers, recruiters, and Al Qaeda leaders take it from there.

Perhaps Lent is now seen by some as a secular opportunity to cleanse the body from daily abundance, if not the soul.

KEVIN R. McNAMARA Houston, Oct. 6, 2013 To the Editor: Religious or secular, college opportunity once existed in American prisons.

We invest in companies that we believe have multi-year, secular-growth opportunities and sustainable competitive advantages that we think will allow us to double our clients' money over a four to five-year time horizon.

During the year, numerous religious and secular festivals provide opportunities for parades, special food, and music and dance.

The analyst rates Visa's stock as "overweight" as he believes "stronger cyclical growth and Visa Europe cost/revenue synergies both lessen downside risks to estimates and could drive further upside and valuation multiple expansion". He also notes that Visa still sees many secular global growth opportunities for the "electronification" of payments, including China and India.

You can gain it in venues that are secular and provide an opportunity for community ties and a chance to reflect on life purpose and meaning just as religious communities have traditionally offered.

We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.

In the 1990s, as Islamic movements began to participate actively in mainstream politics (when given the opportunity), more secular Muslims and many analysts in the West mistrusted the motives of the Islamists.

From Modern's perspective secularization represents not the separation of the religious from the profane but the opportunity for religion to discover within the secular its true meaning.

With the expansion of secular schooling and increased opportunities for nonagricultural work, however, fewer men have adhered to the tradition.