How To Use Sectarian In A Sentence

He was an undogmatic, unsectarian bridge-builder.
There followed seventeen years of sectarian vagabondage: founded in 1830, the sect settled in Kirtland, Ohio, Jackson, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois, reaching Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah, in 1847.
U.K. and other foreign troops, and by other Iraqis in sectarian violence, Peter Bagnall, who analyzed the documents for Iraq Body Count, said in an interview. Website Claims 15,000 Unreported Iraq War Deaths
To me he is false, a bluffer, a hypocrite, a sectarian, a coward and an opportunist.
In such ways are the seeds of social division and sectarianism planted in young children and there's no reason to think it's much different now.

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The concept of ‘sectarian balance’ is equally elastic and carries a variety of meanings.
sectarian differences
The results exposed deepening sectarian polarisation between nationalist and unionist voters.
Stripped of any political content, today's conflicts in Northern Ireland are now what many wrongly assumed them to be during the Troubles: base, atavistic, sectarian clashes.
When I was a missionary in Africa (placed by a non-sectarian group working at a Catholic mission hospital), 70 percent of rural health care was done by missionaries.
The temple is the most sacred site in Nepal, widely venerated by members of at least four major sectarian Buddhist persuasions, each with distinct ethnic and caste affiliations.
refrain from using Christ's name or title or any other denominational appeal" during invocations and instead use "nonsectarian" names for God. The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
However, although it is likely that making individuals active participants in community-building programmes enhances their communicativeness and sociality, there is no guarantee that 'developed' communities would 'reach out' across the ethno-sectarian divide.
It would unleash bloodshed, sectarian violence and regional instability - the very things that the invasion and occupation themselves have produced.
It was serious, serious, raw sectarianism—without a shadow of doubt.
The results exposed deepening sectarian polarisation between nationalist and unionist voters.
The historic election sheared off a thin facade of wartime national unity and reinforced ethnic and sectarian tensions that have plagued the country for centuries.
Sectarian tensions had already been running high, and the abductions threaten to provoke armed conflict.
This created an unprecedented degree of unity across the sectarian divide.
Although Damascus insists that its forces are conducting an antismuggling operation, the Lebanese government is eyeing the moves with unease, believing that the unusual scale of the deployment has more to do with tensions between the two countries over recent sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon. Political Resonance
This, and not the subventions of hegemonic states, is what will ultimately defeat both the secular tyrannies and the religious sectarians.
The contest sparked sectarian violence across the country. Christianity Today
Many colonists wondered if the Protestant sectarians might not be right.
He and his gang were planning to carry out random sectarian assassinations on Catholics in Belfast.
The purpose of the association was, first and foremost, to train young men to become "useful citizens" in an unsectarian, undenominational setting.
The organisation is non-party political and non-sectarian, which added greatly to its early success, and all women over 16 years of age, regardless of religious or political beliefs were eligible to join.
In view of this endemic sectarianism, added to the intrinsic abortiveness of Dictionary of the History of Ideas
This resulted in an inept and weak government unable to bridge the chasm between sectarian factions. Times, Sunday Times
The exclusive force is represented by caste and class, by gentility and donnishness, by sectarianism and nationalism, and even by patriotism ” and the inclusive force is represented by Walt Whitmanism and Christianity.” Father Payne
Its claim to be a non-sectarian, non-political, non-religious humanitarian charity is a sham.
The virulence of sectarianism here remains a major threat to the newly devolved institutions.
The subsequent phase between 1934 and 1939 signalled the return of the party from the political wilderness of sectarian isolationism.
They prefer to point the finger of blame elsewhere, and refuse to accept responsibility for their role in allowing sectarianism to prosper.
Had she ever been involved in any sectarian conflict when she was growing up?
I watched as the militias picked out their victims, swearing at them, insulting their mothers and hurling sectarian insults. Times, Sunday Times
The innovation itself is the delineator between the specific, or "sectarian" and the general, or "mainstream. More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels: Messiahs, Wisdom and Jesus
Even amid the worst sectarian violence, boxers here had a kind of diplomatic immunity.
The legislation from Arkansas, known as House Bill 1032, employs the phrase "academic study of the Bible" throughout, stating that the course would be "nonsectarian, nonreligious" and purely an unbiased study of the Bible and its influence on other disciplines. Lee Jefferson: Legislation of Biblical Proportions: Can We Really Have an 'Academic' Study of the Bible in Public Schools?
Socialist politics are the only way to break down sectarian divisions.
Some observers contend that Iraq will be in danger of falling apart once American troops leave. Zebari says he disagrees, saying that Iraqis are committed to resisting sectarian conflict.
The other thing of course is the riots and sectarian violence.
Unlike his predecessor, who was seen as ecumenical, Benedict is seen as a sectarian who will not reach out to other religions.
When someone asks us whether we want a sectarian government the answer is no we do not want a sectarian government not because the U.S. ambassador says so or issues a warning. ' OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iraq to US: BUTT OUT!
As members of a non-sectarian party, Ford and his colleagues argued that it would be ‘difficult to stomach’ rebranding themselves as unionists or nationalists for longer than a day.
We will strive to be non-sectarian and ecumenical, and our pages are open to a wide range of political views, a commitment to pluralism reflected in our advisory editorial board.
Further allegations of anti-Catholicism from prominent figures including Cardinal Logue aroused sectarian feelings which led to jeering and hissing on 8 May.
Several thousand were slaughtered in this sporadic sectarian violence which continued intermittently after 1795.
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Moreover, it would be a mistake to imagine that the extensive denominational press was narrowly sectarian.
Where sectarian activity can be proven among a club's support you suspend the club's licence.
The nonsectarian, unaffiliated organization performs in three separate age-based ensembles and includes girls ranging in age from 6 to 17.
Pre-earthquake Haiti had "small government" -- the neocon and so-called "conversative" political factions in the USA and their dupes prescribe "small government" which provides no regulation, and little in the way of central monitoring and control except for enforcing sectarian-based intrusion and exercising sovereignty over citizen's personal lives, including decisions about reproduction, pregnancy, and supposedly private consensual activities.... Making Light: Open thread 134
There is no room for petty insularity and sectarian nonsense - the Scots must see themselves as nimble enough to change and take on the world's best.
As I said, the opposition to the elections is a national, not a denominational or sectarian, movement.
To essentially claim that he is no better than the Liberals or Tories is plain sectarianism.
Today those closest to our violent past seem to dominate the political landscape and many remain entranced by sectarian concerns.
This created an unprecedented degree of unity across the sectarian divide.
Most of the kidnappings are by criminal groups that want a ransom, or sectarian groups that want to sow divisions.
The province has been ridden by a sectarian conflict that has claimed more than 2,000 lives and displaced more than 750,000 people.
The exploitation of sectarian disputes within a movement to discredit its members is time-honored and disreputable.
... unless you believe that "nonsectarian" means "acceptable for all Christians" and that no one who isn't Christian counts. Brilliant at Breakfast
He cites numerous friends and colleagues who have described him as ‘the most non-sectarian person they know’ before launching another attack on last year's coverage of his demise.
The deployment last year of Iraqi troops, who were widely perceived locally as Shi'ite Arab outsiders, prompted the Sunni mayor of Tal Afar to tender his resignation in protest at what he described as a sectarian operation. Stephen Kaus: What Good News?
The legislation will see increased sentences for crimes motivated by sectarianism or bigotry.
With a separatist impulse, fundamentalism turned inward; but the sectarian subculture that coalesced was resourceful and vibrant.
Sectarian bloodlust is difficult to stop, and only the Iraqis can stop it. Leaving Iraq
Unlike some ethnic groups, they have refrained from importing the kind of issues which have led to sectarian or civil strife in their history or homeland. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
They were deployed to protect civilians from marauding paramilitary forces on both sides of the sectarian divide. Times, Sunday Times
At the Agreement's heart was a Stormont Assembly that institutionalised the sectarian divide.
It is not too much to say that the colonialist condition and its sectarian history drove a wedge between the populace and its writers.
The gravity of the economic situation meant that the appeasement of sectarianism was not sufficient to deal with the threat of working-class disaffection.
Opponents concede she makes a persuasive case for change but she has failed to cast off sectarian baggage. Times, Sunday Times
And he could be no less firm about aspects of liturgy of which he disapproved: his theology was never angular or sectarian (remember his generous support of the liturgical experiments of his successor as Dean of Clare, John Robinson), but there was a clear, eirenic but firm foundation in Protestant principle that made him very uneasy with what he regarded as the drip-feed of some sorts of Catholicising devotion into Anglican practice. Sermon for the Life and Work of the Revd Prof CFD Moule
But these sectarian Baptists find their interests intertwined with the mineworkers, many of whom are their fellow members or clergy.
Holy Fire is not a sacral rite, but a sectarian battle standard and, as she earnestly tries to prove, a fraud.
The, Church of England, it said, is like Christ crucified between two thieves, Papists on one side and Nonconformist sectarians on the other.
This is the whole idea behind his faith-based initiatives program, is that faith-based organizations can stand side by side with secular, non-sectarian organizations in providing charitable services.
a sectarian mind
The key is the interaction within these generations of those on either side of the sectarian divide. The Times Literary Supplement
a wide and unsectarian interest in religion
Higonnet suggests that in the pursuit of universalist fraternity, however, Jacobin language lost its original libertarian meaning and that Jacobinism became a kind of sectarian religion as it moved from sensibility to ideology.
The death of Glen Branagh is a warning to the labour movement and the working class that bloody sectarian conflict is not a thing of the past in Northern Ireland.
Centuries of sporadic sectarian violence had largely died away by the 20th century. Times, Sunday Times
The year after the American-led coalition overthrew Saddam's dictatorship in 2003, al Qaeda in Iraq revealed a cynical plan to kill and maim Shiites to spark a sectarian war. Iraq's Tenuous Post-American Future
Police said yesterday there appeared to be no sectarian motive for the killing.
As it was frequently mentioned in Buddhist sutras, the practice of contemplating on a decaying corpse was adopted widely by monks regardless of their sectarian affiliations.
To essentially claim that he is no better than the Liberals or Tories is plain sectarianism.
I watched as the militias picked out their victims, swearing at them, insulting their mothers and hurling sectarian insults. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, Luther was unwilling to sacrifice political prudence and practicality on the altar of biblical literalism, or to identify Christianity with sectarian withdrawal from the political sphere.
The public power belongs to everyone and when majorities hijack it for sectarian purposes they act oppressively.
Brief reprieves, however, from a society riven with sectarianism are possible by visiting some of Northern Ireland's wonderful countryside.
As antagonism deepens between themes which are the expression of reality, there is a tendency for the themes and for reality to be mythicized, establishing a climate of irrationality and sectarianism ... Address at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs
Unlike other countries where sectarian conflicts have flared among members of different religious groups, religious comity in the country is enviable.
The sad but true facts seem to suggest that pure and unadulterated sectarianism is at the base of the rationale that is clouding common sense and sound judgement within unionism.
Portadown-based Wright was expelled from theUlster Volunteer Force in 1996 after his unit breached the ceasefire with the sectarian murder of a Catholic taxi driver, Michael McGolderick, during the Drumcree marching dispute. Billy Wright assassin: Maze security was 'a joke'
Engagement with it can only help the West and western values in a region on the verge of a sectarian bloodbath. Times, Sunday Times
Hardly the conduct of a sectarian or narrow-minded politician.
Some time later he was arrested as a " religious sectarian " and put in prison.
One of the right's political accomplishments is bringing together diverse, once-hostile sectarians.
If only they could show the same resolve when it comes to preventing the anti-social behaviour of sectarian marches and bigoted football fans singing.
sectarian squabbles in psychology
[T] he picture that this report paints is one of small, sectarian and chauvinist groupuscules, reproducing in this country the fissiparous and distrustful community loyalties of the subcontinent. Young British Muslims at the mercy of extremists because of out-of-touch Imams
The Mission was started as an independent non-sectarian project by two members of the Centenary Methodist Chapel.
That's why we report to you about what we call worsening sectarian violence. CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2006
They likewise reject as sectarian, That the community of the faithful or professing Christians, in a private station hath any scriptural warrant for public teaching, or judicative determination in the church; both which opinions are not only expressly contrary to scripture, Acts xv, throughout, and xvi, 4; I Cor. v, 4; 1 Tim: v, 17; Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
One could view such Pentecostal sectarian movements as prefigurations of contemporary developments.
Gorrie wants the police to be ordered to start collating statistics on the level of crime motivated by sectarianism.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Pakistan became the scene of a proxy war between mostly Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia, with both sides funnelling money to sectarian groups that regularly targeted each other. Twelve die in Pakistan bus attack
Sectarianism is about religious denominations.
‘This is not a prescription for intolerance or narrow sectarianism,’ she continued, ‘for unalienable rights were given by God to all our fellow citizens.’
The resurgence of ethnic or sectarian conflicts; the growth of secessionist movements, insurgencies, and failed states -- all these things have increasingly trapped civilians in unending chaos.
Both advance themselves as non-sectarian and dedicated to bridging the gap between Protestants and Catholics.
Indulgence, the strict Covenanters were reduced to what they style themselves in the "Informatory Vindication," a "wasted, suffering, anti-popish, anti-prelatic, anti-erastian, anti-sectarian remnant. The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony
Meaning, I guess, we're supposed to concede the point that keeping armed forces in Iraq is better than some imagined, hypothetical scenario where all hell breaks loose the second our forces leave, the country dissolves into sectarian warfare (worse that the civil strife that has already occurred,) and some kind of apocalyptical genocide breaks out (the kind of genocide we care about, not the Darfur or Congo kind.) Allison Kilkenny: Iraq and Afghanistan: Consider the Alternative
Calling somebody a paedophile or flinging sectarianism terms (taig) about only shows your mentality and prejudices, your apparent inability to read and comprehend written information is obvious. Army Rumour Service
His religion was unsectarian and practical, his daily life founded on the New Testament.
Such practices create real grievances, encourage mediocrity, and are bound to inflame sectarian resentment.
The death of Glen Branagh is a warning to the labour movement and the working class that bloody sectarian conflict is not a thing of the past in Northern Ireland.
BLITZER: That seems to be a significant -- almost three years into this war, it's not only an insurgency that's undermining the U. S.-led effort, but now it's turning into what he calls sectarian violence. CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2006
The truth is that Northern Ireland is a state which nurtures sectarian divide and rule.
They have forgotten how religious ideals can play a crucial role in solving sectarian violence. Times, Sunday Times
Occasionally, sectarian concerns discouraged both Protestants and Catholics from attending branches.
What about the protests against tyranny in Bahrain, not sectarian uprest, as the US will have the simple-minded think and the pathetic anti-Iranian propaganda. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Other members of the crowd appealed for reforms that could appeal across the sectarian divide. Times, Sunday Times
She favoured sound secular teaching and unsectarian Bible instruction.
La Leche League is an international, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization dedicated to providing education, information, support, and encouragement to women who want to breastfeed .
Or will it deepen old wounds, increase sectarian tension and fuel more bloodshed?
At the end, though, sectarian idiocy gave way to mass jubilation.
It is up to all of us to demonstrate our abhorrence of sectarianism, discrimination and racism.
His imagination had to unlearn its intense partiality and localism; his tutor apparently assumed that already as young children we have learned narrow sectarian types of loyalty.
Socialists who stand for the political independence of the working class and its international unity have always been branded as sectarians by muddle-headed reformists.
Furthermore, a significant percentage of those organizations have been pervasively sectarian and used religious criteria in their hiring.
I've long taken this story as an example of how religious sectarianism can warp the priorities of intelligent people. Times, Sunday Times
These religious schools still preach an insidious doctrine that foments the sectarian violence that is increasingly a threat to the stability of Pakistan.
One of the other distressing points was his description of how this breaking down of civil society had left only those sorts of leaders who could call on atavistic or sectarian loyalties.
It is clearly a plan on the part of outsiders to come in this country and spark civil war, create sectarian violence and try to expose fissures in the society.
Both sides include sectarian parties that were organised militias during the civil war, and have supported neoliberal polices.
Both Sivaism and Vishnuism departed more and more strongly from tradition Brahminism, and assumed a decidedly sectarian character towards the older religion and also towards each other. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
Fleeting has twice already suffered rejections from the present board of directors amid allegations of sectarianism.
At least 300 people have been killed in the Poso sectarian conflicts.
He advocated a strict literalism in which the text became the sole source of legitimate authority, and displayed an extreme hostility to intellectualism, mysticism, and any sectarian divisions within Islam.
They realise that we are non political, non sectarian and are just a group who want to help.
They were deployed to protect civilians from marauding paramilitary forces on both sides of the sectarian divide. Times, Sunday Times
Stranger still was that this programme about religious sectarianism failed to cross-question religious organisations.
He was the fifth person to be killed in sectarian violence.
They also published an unsectarian religious paper, entitled the Western World.
This resulted in an inept and weak government unable to bridge the chasm between sectarian factions. Times, Sunday Times
In an unfortunate spirit of jealous rivalry, the various denominational colleges were not slow in seizing the opportunity to attack the commonwealth's unsectarian college.
The virulence of sectarianism there remains a major threat to the newly devolved institutions.
He took part in the discussions on the government's policy towards popular education, favouring an unsectarian solution.
Centuries of sporadic sectarian violence had largely died away by the 20th century. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the 12,000 workforce fled to avoid the sectarian bloodbath. Times, Sunday Times
On Baghdad's streets, rumors are rife about renegade ministry of interior death squads, carrying out sectarian killings.
religious training in a nonsectarian atmosphere
Iraqi officials say public discord encourages sectarian violence.
The incursion of sectarian orthodoxy in Indian history involves two distinct problems, to wit, narrow sectarianism, and unreasoned orthodoxy.
Reconciliation has been a buzzword touted by almost every member of this country's fragile power base, but on many levels, sectarian differences seem as entrenched as ever. The Guardian World News
From the early 1930s the Church was joined by sectarian political parties such as Glasgow's Scottish Protestant League and Edinburgh's Protestant Action, which outpolled the Labour party in some municipal elections.
Under the Ta'if Accord - the blueprint for national reconciliation - the Lebanese established a more equitable political system, particularly by giving Muslims a greater voice in the political process while institutionalizing sectarian divisions in the government. Background
Their focus has been on Kashmir or on domestic sectarian violence.
There are 170 miles and an abyss of sectarianism separating Glasgow and Inverness.
Yet he does not want to see that attack, which consisted of the car being covered in broken eggs and the tyres punctured, as yet another example of a sectarian attack upon him.
Times: 'The government is a sectarian government which is not based on the constitution and did not respect its agreements with the other political blocs. Times, Sunday Times
I watched as the militias picked out their victims, swearing at them, insulting their mothers and hurling sectarian insults. Times, Sunday Times
But, after the earliest period, sectarian denominations became less and less important.
The first steps have been taken to set up an anti-capitalist movement from below, where social and political organisations can come together in a non-sectarian way.
Who is working our perceived sectarian faultline to derail the revolution? The attack on Egyptian Christians was not sectarian. We will uncover the truth | Ahdaf Soueif
He was the fifth person to be killed in sectarian violence.
The issues surrounding Church schools are therefore no longer to do with a fear of aggressive sectarianism. Times, Sunday Times
Even after the Reformation extreme sectarians despised Anglican clergy as ‘magicians, sorcerers, enchanters’.
Rejecting theocracy, Althusius developed a non-sectarian, non-religious contractualist political theory of federations that prohibited state intervention even for purposes of promoting the right faith.
It must stop exalting its own worst excesses and re-invent itself as a cultural organisation free of the taint of sectarian triumphalism.
The truth is that the Orange Order can no longer parade in a nakedly sectarian and triumphalist fashion.
In the weeks before the parade Wilson insisted the organisation would take a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to public disorder and sectarian abuse.
American people are not at heart sectarian, and the nothingarianism so prevalent among them only marks their state of transition from sectarian opinions to positive Catholic faith. The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny
The idiomatic approach of Reform Unitarianism takes realism one step further and recognizes that some of the underlying ideas of other religions must be valid if the God we worship is indeed the God of all Creation and not merely an imagined god of ethnic or sectarian autolatry .... UUpdates - All updates
One way to avoid any kind of sectarian essentializing leading to religious fanaticism is to read these texts in comparative and inclusive ways.
They have been forced to hire devotees of sectarian Orthodoxy, who inevitably influence the religious orientation of their students.
But suspicions were not confined to one side of the sectarian divide. Times, Sunday Times
Her links with the Christian Social Union encouraged in her an unsectarian broad-church outlook.
It is, I fear, true that the decay of the sectarian -- that is to say undenominational -- spirit in the Y.M.C.A. has resulted in a certain blurring of the "soul" side of the red triangle. A Padre in France
I have no interest in trading insults with you however you should look up the word sectarian before you reply. Celtic 4-0 Hearts | Scottish Premier League
Arab. hashshashin and hashishiyyin, lit. "a hashish-eater, one addicted to hashish," both forms in Arabic being applied to the Ismaili sectarians, who used to intoxicate themselves with hashish or hemp, when preparing to dispatch some king or public man. Chris Weigant: Should America Assassinate?
I agree that sectarian clashes are a curse and there is need to bring these to an end.
The political dynamic of the peace process itself has a proportionally inverse impact on the wide spectrum of unionist sectarianism.
But more seriously it goes on to say that any drop off in violence in Baghdad is because the sectarian cleansing is complete in most areas and there are fortressed enclaves of Sunnis surrounded by Shiites. Analysis: How Bad Is The NIE For Maliki?
His eventual election as lord provost in 1843, in the changed religious atmosphere immediately surrounding the Disruption of that year, was seen as a triumph for unsectarian principles.
Religion is not talk or doctrines or theories, nor is it sectarianism.
When people in the North repeatedly turn out to vote for sectarian demagoguery and backstreet thuggery above all available normal democratic alternatives, then they have not delivered a verdict which needs to be respected.
What they did not bargain for was that the war would awaken a volcano of sectarian resentment.
Political and sectarian violence destabilized the new state from the outset.
The measures came as sectarian attacks threaten to derail a fragile peace deal.
It is, indeed, extremely difficult, owing to the superstruction of sectarian belief, to get down to the foundation-religion of the epic. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
By 1943 Lebanon’s precarious balance between Christians and Muslims and the quasidemocratic system that existed under Mount Lebanon’s autonomy while an Ottoman Caliphate ruled the rest of the region had helped shape a constitutional democracy with sectarian representation. The Coming Revolution
I'd say there's not technically a civil war because there still is a unity government and there still is what I call a nonsectarian military. CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2006
In time most of the evangelical Christians in the city promised to relieve the missionaries of the expense if they would build an unsectarian chapel more worthy of the object.
We can point, randomly, to instances that fuelled the fire of sectarian hatred.
The deliberate sectarian gerrymander that the Northern state was in the first instance has now disappeared, eroded by demographics.
Anyway, what I am trying to say is they are a bunch of toothless wonders, incapable of creation and development, but proven at destruction - sectarian indeed.
PETRAEUS: Tony, there is no question but that some elements, particularly of the Ministry of Interior forces, during the height of the sectarian violence during 2006, were what we call hijacked by certain militia interests in particular. CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2007

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