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    sectarian


    1. Rest, repose, tolerance and renunciation of all sectarian observances,


    2. Thousands of Iraqis have died as a result of sectarian violence and a civil war between Shias & Sunnis is a possibility


    3. In Turkey I was back among the simple kindness, hospitality and intelligence of a sectarian Muslim state


    4. It is common to find the most intense devotion allied with bitter sectarian


    5. " Thus because of sectarian prejudice these Samaritans denied themselves the honor of showing hospitality to the Creator Son of a universe


    6. But in this brotherhood of Jesus there is no place for sectarian rivalry, group bitterness, nor assertions of moral superiority and spiritual infallibility


    7. By now, tensions were running high, and the Army had twice been called in to support the police in containing angry confrontations along the sectarian divide


    8. There were more sectarian murders, with high-ranking casualties on both sides, although neither side really understood what was going on


    9. For reasons which I do not fully understand, and for which I have seen no satisfactory explanation put forward, it would seem that the vast majority of terrorists, from both sides of the sectarian divide, have left the Province


    10. Thankfully, the population of the Province was largely unaffected by this sectarian violence, which was as short-lived as it was unexpected and unexplained

    11. Members will know, the lack of terrorist leadership and the almost total cessation of sectarian violence has allowed the Police Service, aided by the Army and acting on information received, to confiscate considerable quantities of illegally held arms and ammunition, both from private houses and drinking clubs, and from arms dumps


    12. It should be born in mind, Mr Speaker, that the United States has always played a pivotal role in the peace process, acting as an honest broker across the sectarian divide, so it is no stranger to the recent history of the Province


    13. We have seen no evidence of it for some considerable time now, and all our information is that the terrorist organisations are now without arms, without a leadership, without the large reserves of cash they once enjoyed which would enable them to re-arm, and indeed, in many cases they are also without members who are any more prepared to continue their sectarian violence


    14. A couple of sectarian murders of Protestant hardliners some three years ago, then a kneecapping in the Falls Road, which we took to be a punishment shooting


    15. Knowing well what it takes to regain one’s self-confidence after a reverse or two, would it be difficult to envisage what it takes for the so-called SCs and STs to start believing in themselves? Do you honestly believe that the climate today is conducive to their emotional integration with the social mainstream? It’s surprising why we fail to put ourselves in their sectarian shoes, knowing that birth is a chancy proposition, after all


    16. other traditions would also be considered sectarian, but he accuses


    17. that they are sectarian


    18. only says that Shugden people are sectarian


    19. So the sectarian slaughters were on for over a decade now that saw so much Muslim blood shed on the ‘straight path’ and the umma remains clueless about how to bring that to an end


    20. The bigots who burn the effigies of Uncle Sam fail to come up with one for the Satan’s of Islam; why this all-round silence, when the Muslim world is burning in its sectarian hatred? Maybe it’s possible that the Musalmans who have come to jump for joy at the infidels’ death in the martyr missions of the faithful had insensibly lost their sensitivity after all

    21. Even though the Shia-Sunni killings, clearly rooted in the sectarian dogma of the Islamic divide, were to be shrouded by some ethnic animosity attached to them, the Sunni slaughter of the sub-continental Shias in Iraq begs for answers


    22. ing one tradition but respecting others is now regarded as a sectarian


    23. sectarian attitude toward other traditions:


    24. was sectarian later in his life


    25. sation of being sectarian and of promoting Dorje Shugden practice


    26. They found trueness and faithfulness in his mission, and that it gathers the whole under the banner of the Holy Qur’an and the sacred Sunnah of God’s noble messenger (CPTH) so that all the hateful sectarian disputes destroying the religion of our Master Mohammad (CPTH) will be driven away by this guidance


    27. For this reason, love is not beholden to a government nor constrained by sectarian beliefs


    28. They found truth and faithfulness in his mission, and found that it gathers the whole under the banner of the Holy Qur’an and the sacred Sun’na of God’s noble Envoy (cpth), so that all the hateful sectarian disputes destroying the religion of our master Mohammad (cpth) will be driven away by this guidance


    29. They found truth and faithfulness in his mission, and found that it gathers the whole under the banner of the Holy Qur’an and the sacred Sun’na of God’s noble Envoy (cpth) so that all the hateful sectarian disputes destroying the religion of our master Mohammad (cpth) will be driven away by this guidance


    30. They found trueness and faithfulness in his mission, and that it gathers the whole under the banner of the Holy Qur'an and the sacred Sunna of God's noble messenger (cpth) so that all the hateful sectarian disputes destroying the religion of our Master Mohammad (cpth) will be driven away by this guidance

    31. They found trueness and faithfulness in his mission, and that it gathers the whole under the banner of the Holy Qur’an and the sacred Sunnah of God’s noble messenger (cpth) so that all the hateful sectarian disputes destroying the religion of our Master Mohammad (cpth) will be driven away by this guidance


    32. These laws and the terms sectarian, religious


    33. This new Reformed Judaism mirrored the Luther Reformation which had humanized the people of northern Europe and created the peaceful socialist democracies which are still the envy of the world and a living example of how to live without sectarian hatred and racism


    34. Churches as fields for the use of surplus wealth have purposely been reserved until the last, because, these being sectarian, every man will be governed in his action in regard to them by his own attachments; therefore gifts to churches, it may be said, are not, in one sense, gifts to the community at large, but to special classes


    35. The members of the Shining Light Chapel - to which he himself belonged - was the organizers of that meeting but it was not a sectarian meeting, for he was 'appy to say that several members of other denominations was there co-operating with them in the good work


    36. That's a matter for everyman's opinion and, without dragging in the sectarian side of the business, I beg to differ with you in toto there


    37. Given the intensity of the sectarian divide in Liverpool at that time, it could not have been lost on him that for his daughter to be born on July 12—the day the Orangemen commemorate the victory of King Billy at the Battle of the Boyne—and for her to be called Lillian was likely to be provocative


    38. Sectarian violence has grown to a point that it’s at the edge of our control


    39. “Why with disgust? After all, it is a manifestation of religious feeling, though one-sided and sectarian,” said Selenin


    40. Toporoff did not see this contradiction, nor did he wish to see it, and he was therefore much concerned lest some Romish priest, some pastor, or some sectarian should destroy that Church which the gates of hell could not conquer

    41. But then he thought no harm could result from his confirming the decision to separate and exile the different members of the sectarian families, whereas allowing the peasant sect to remain where it was might have a bad effect on the rest of the inhabitants of the place and cause them to fall away from Orthodoxy


    42. I know how another cross-examined a sectarian and put down the reading of the Gospels as a criminal offence; in fact, the whole business of the Law Courts consists in senseless and cruel actions of that sort


    43. In the second room there was a big brick oven, a table, and sectarian icons


    44. "Why should you be disgusted? At all events it is a manifestation of religious feeling, although one-sided and sectarian," said Selenin


    45. Then it is assumed that he is a sectarian and so understands Christianity incorrectly, that is, not in the way the clergy in the government pay understand it, and so the young man is sent under convoy to the priests, to be admonished


    46. Whereupon it is taken for granted that he is a sectarian, and therefore misunderstands Christianity; in other words, that he differs from the priests paid by the State


    47. Another revolutionist, a materialist, becoming convinced of the stupidity of existence and the hopelessness of the struggle against reaction, commits suicide in his cell, while an old sectarian prisoner dies happily, invoking the Lamb of God


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    Synonyms for "sectarian"

    sectarian sectarist sectary partisan heretic zealot true believer rebel nonconformist

    "sectarian" definitions

    a member of a sect


    of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects


    belonging to or characteristic of a sect