Sentence examples for secular region from inspiring English sources

That is true of almost all of Scandinavia, a profoundly secular region where the word of God, while not exactly irrelevant, is often viewed as tedious.

Quetta and the surrounding province of Baluchistan, the largest and least populated of Pakistan's four provinces, was the country's most secular region until the late 1970's, when the military ruler, Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq started a campaign to nurture Muslim identity.

In the south, which is a predominantly Christian and secular region, the dances, minimally-attired ladies and globally-informed sonic and visual presentation (shades, watches, warm-up suits, international electronic beats) seem to have more in common with the music videos seen across sub-Saharan Africa.

And they are enforcing a strict interpretation of Islam with cruelty, bringing public beheadings, assassinations, social and cultural repression and persecution of women to what was once an independent, relatively secular region, dotted with ski resorts and fruit orchards and known for its dancing girls.

The aim of the study was to analyse associations of religiosity and mortality in a secular region.

"Blues Suite" (1958), which opened the evening, is a dance of smoldering passions to songs that, as a program note declares, could be called hymns to the soul's "secular regions".

His distillation of the blues -- "hymns to the secular regions" of the Southern black soul, as he wrote in program notes -- unfolds in places like rural landscapes, a bordello and a raucous bar.

Which factors have exacerbated the "longstanding distrust between the more secular, urban regions and the religious, rural areas" of the United States, according to the editorial?

The Russians strongly support the last secular regime in the region.

Brownstone Brooklyn, the study found, was the most secular of the region's Jewish enclaves.

All efforts at eradication failed, however, largely because of the tolerance of the Cathari maintained by Raymond VI of Toulouse, the greatest baron of the area, and by most secular lords in the region.