Sentence examples for small sect from inspiring English sources

But isn't the pushing of an artist into a small sect also a kind of censorship?

As the small sect is dispersed from its homeland, assimilation and intermarriage threaten to erode the faith.

Yazidis, members of a small sect that takes inspiration from Zoroastrianism, have faced the prospect of total annihilation.

"We are a small sect, we do not want trouble," said Khodr Elias, 49, a resident of Bashiqa, which is dominated by Yazidis, an ancient Kurdish-speaking sect.

But if American conservatives give up their optimism and their universal creed, they will once again be a small sect at the fringes of political life.

Certainly, there are artists who are happy to talk to their own small sect in exchange for complete freedom to say whatever they will.

Small sects proliferated in the 1920s.

The Plain People the Amish, the Mennonites, and other small sects—have kept their traditional ways of life based in the teachings of the Bible.

The name "Old Catholic" is sometimes used of other small sects directed by episcopi vagantes (see episcopus vagans), or unrecognized bishops; but this is an inaccuracy.

There are enough infertile couples desperate to reproduce, enough small sects eager to keep their numbers up and their gene pools pure, and enough megalomaniacs intent on replicating themselves, to make money the least of would-be cloners' problems.

Religious unity, too, had long since crumbled: in addition to the division of Islām into two major groups the Sunnites and the Shīʿites countless small sects had developed, often with the support of local rulers.