Sentence examples for secular tendencies from inspiring English sources

Poles with "progressive" (green, centre-left or secular tendencies) had only the lesser evil to choose from.

In time, Mother India vanished, leaving only a contemplative Gandhi, making the whole movement more palatable to people with secular tendencies.

Last week, it was an attack on a rabbinic zealot at the Begin Heritage Center, across the street from the Cinematheque, where the remaining Jerusalemites with secular tendencies take in a film by Mike Leigh or Denys Arcand.

Perhaps our analytical or secular tendencies stubbornly refuse to allow us to ignore the absurdities of life.

Moreover, his Shiite identity and secular tendencies make him legitimate to a majority of Iraqis and less threatening to its Sunni and Kurdish minorities than the more Islamist al-Maliki.

While Maryam said she was "astonished" when she found out how many Muslims there are with atheistic, agnostic, and secular tendencies, she admitted that it's tough for groups like the CEMB to attract them, as most are afraid of airing their beliefs in public.

And the centre, contrary to the wilder Republican propaganda about his "secular socialist" tendencies, is precisely where I believe he would like to be.

An elected government with popular support would be better placed to work with the moderate, secular, professional tendency in the army to tackle extremism and bring Pakistan's poor the economic development they need.Sadly, there seems little hope that the security forces will abandon the habit of a lifetime and allow truly fair elections.

According to Nik-Hussein et al. [ 42], the discrepancies between chronological age and dental age can be due to a positive secular general tendency in which growth and somatic development could contribute to earlier dental eruption and mineralization.

These results may represent a general tendency among secular liberal arts private colleges in Northeastern United States, particularly those similar to Roger Williams University (middle/upper-middle income population); more than 90% of the students at this institution are native to New England (77.3%) and the East Coast of the US (18.9%; Table 1).

These results may represent a general tendency among secular or religious liberal arts private colleges in Northeastern USA, particularly those similar to RWU or PC (middle/upper-middle income population); more than 90% of the students at both institutions are native to New England (77% at RWU versus 67% at PC) and the East Coast of the USA (18% at RWU versus 25% at PC; Table 1).