Sentence examples for twelve sects from inspiring English sources
He was in the denomination known as "Tribe of Joseph", because he was born in February (each of the twelve sects being composed of members born in a different month).
These two sects brought certain esoteric Buddhist rituals into Shintō.
Hostility between Saudi Arabia and Iran dates back centuries, with the emergence of two sects in Islam.
Iraq reminds Cockburn of Lebanon; he quotes a local saying: "Two Iraqis, three sects".
Members of all three sects have gone as fighters to Syria.
"At any moment, there will be war between the two sects," he said.
The main doctrinal difference between the two sects centres on the question of Vishnu's grace.
In most cases, though, members of the two sects still live harmoniously together.
The two sects were thenceforth to form the mainstream of Japanese Buddhism.
He mentions both Christians and Nazareans, possibly two kinds of Christians, Greek-speaking and Syriac-speaking, or two sects.
Shīʿites have long been the target of Sunni radicals, and violent encounters between followers of the two sects are common.
