Sentence examples for under a secular from inspiring English sources

These groups would feel safer in their compatible plurality, and unity under a secular umbrella.

Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.

Is this a great historical paradox - the consolidation of a sentimental tie based on common Orthodox Christianity, under a secular Greek government and a stridently pious Russian one?

The election was played out against the backdrop of a fierce debate about rising intolerance in India, a country that prides itself on unifying diverse religious and linguistic groups under a secular democratic umbrella.

But Erdogan's coffee house talk approach seems to have worked: over the past decade, national economic output tripled and average incomes doubled under a secular model that blends European and Islamic values.

Only under a secular constitution can a nation of nearly 850m people that is divided and then sub-di-vided by race, religion and caste stay peacefully together for the journey ahead.Lal Krishna Advani's BJP argues that a nation that is 80% Hindu can peacefully assume an official Hindu identity.

A search is under way for a secular ethic that will somehow defend human dignity.

Sunni Arab voters were newly emboldened in an election in which they forcefully took part under the banner of a secular alliance.

The P.K.K. aimed to reverse all of this, preaching a reverence for transnational Kurdish identity and language under the banner of a secular, leftist program.

The war's critics have been quick to see in Iraq the pattern of Yugoslavia: the fall of a dictator allows an artificial state to fracture into warring nations or perhaps to be unified again under the fist of a secular or religious tyranny.

In its geography, Turkey straddles Europe and Asia; its history includes a triumphant imperial episode under the Ottoman sultans and, after long decline, a secular, modernizing revolution under Atatürk.