sectarian English

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sectarian

— adjective of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects sectarian differences

— noun a member of a sect most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect

— adjective belonging to or characteristic of a sect a sectarian mind the negations of sectarian ideology — Sidney Hook sectarian squabbles in psychology

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sectarian English » English

sectary

heretic

sectarist

schismatic

nonconformist

member of a sect

zealot

unit

tight

separatist

sectional

secessionist

religionist

rabid

ordinal

narrow

name

heretical

fanatical

fanatic

factional

dissenter

denominational

denomination

bigoted

apostate

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Instead of sectarian gangs, they'll now face those same thugs armed and uniformed by the British state.

There is something exceedingly odd about the idea of sectarian religious schools.

Sectarian education has proved to be deeply damaging.

Sectarian education acts in a similar way.

Help! Just as Cameron's Shock therapy left his patients confused and broken, so the multiple shocks inflicted on Irak reduced the country to a lawless, violent, sectarian mess.

For example, the public at large actually believe the invasion of Iraq is going badly, as sectarian violence doesn't seem to stop.

The militias chiítas they have infiltrated into the police. using them for sectarian slaughters.

You'll have sectarian violence. You will have assassination attempts. You will have civil unrest on a scale we've never seen.

You will have sectarian violence. You will have assassination attempts.

Victory is imminent and the good people of Iraq are already planning parades, fireworks and pageants celebrating their liberation from sectarian insurgent forces.

All of them prepared to issue fatwas condemning the sectarian violence in Iraq.

You'll have the Ministry's permission, sectarian permission, to commit this sin.

They believe that hard-line sectarian groups are preparing to take advantage of the void created by withdrawal.

Apparently it is the oldest public non-sectarian graveyard in the city. surrounded by walls of Tuckahoe marble.

I'm not giving this pseudo-insurrectionary sectarian a piece of my show. I'm not giving him script approval. I'm not cutting him in on my distribution charges.

We're not sectarian.

With no sectarian overtones.

The disease, violence and bloodshed that afflict our youngsters, do not recognize sectarian boundaries.

Another dozen bodies were discovered today in Bagdad, handcuffed and executed, in a struggle in which two worlds have become one, sectarian strife.

For example, the public at large actually believes the invasion of Iraq is going badly, as sectarian violence doesn't seem to stop.

You'll have sectarian violence. You will have assassination attempts.

In the capital of Kingston there are rival shantytown ghettos. where whole communities are divided along sectarian lines.

The levels of sectarian crime have reduced over the last year.

Lately, there have been many cases of violent family breakdowns, of kidnappings due to one of the parents' sectarian activities.

This reeks of sectarian practices.

You're a simplistic sectarian.

They believe that hard-line sectarian groups are preparing to take advantage of the void created by withdrawal. Just last month in this market, a bomb attack.

Just saying that it could easily tip into mindless sectarian violence.

Our country is blessed with natural resources, but riven with sectarian conflict, making us vulnerable to predators - multinational corporations, interested in ever greater wealth and power.

Sectarian violence all over again.

Even so, even given James Tyler's history of sectarian violence, there was no evidence or intelligence to suggest that. that he would go to such lengths to mount an attack on the prisoner.

We have no sectarian divisions, a history of moderate Islam, widespread literacy, and a small army loyal to a civilian government.

In Iraq, extremist Sunni groups had used suicide bombing as a way to start a sectarian war.

The sectarian songs have been banned, but they still gather and remain loyal to the victory of 1690, and to a simpler, less tolerant time.

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Should the US choose to face al-Sadr and his forces head on, they risk alienating Iraq's largest sectarian community, the Shi'a, adding fuel to the anti-occupation resistance and thus probably dooming Bush to failure.

Saudi Arabia's population is divided into distinctive regional, tribal, and sectarian groups.

Now Bush will increase the number of American troops in Baghdad and Anbar Province and try to stabilize both the rising sectarian civil war and the Sunni insurgency.

But it may be too late for political compromise, and the Maliki government may not be capable of a broad non-sectarian policy.

But the price has been high in terms of Iraqi lives lost in sectarian fighting.

If troubled Lebanon, wracked by sectarian violence and religious divides, can champion coexistence and provide Syrian refugees with a chance to study, there is no reason other countries in the region should not follow its example.

There is no doubt that Egyptian society is deeply divided along sectarian, ideological, class, and regional lines.

And we should know by now that any Western military intervention with overtly political, rather than clearly humanitarian, objectives runs a real risk of inflaming sectarian sentiment.

Consider sectarian struggle between Sunni and Shia Muslims - now the prime mover of events in the Middle East.

In 1947, India's leaders faced a country with a million dead, 13 million displaced, billions of rupees worth of property damage, and the wounds of sectarian violence still bleeding.

This is dangerous because apathy does not take the form of withdrawal from public life, but increasingly finds expression in sectarian and religious conflict.

The rapid Shiite rise has already turned into a sectarian civil war in Iraq and recently has threatened to generate the same outcome in Lebanon.

If Iran does not properly manage its growing power, it could unwittingly trigger a drawn out sectarian war throughout the region, a nuclear arms race with Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and war with Israel, the US, or both.

In 2010, Iraqi political leaders' machinations - personal, as well as tribal and sectarian - left the country without a government for 249 days.

A country torn by sectarian violence beginning in 1975, Lebanon pitted an even more complex array of contestants against each other than Iraq does today.

The liberalization process has exposed the country's long-standing religious divisions, leading to a wave of sectarian violence aimed primarily at the minority Muslim community.

The war has pulverized Iraqi society, dissolving it into an ethno-sectarian patchwork.

There is a lack of appreciation of how deeply entrenched are Iraq's sectarian, tribal, and ethnic loyalties.

Iraq, another of Turkey's neighbors, faces the risk of a protracted sectarian power struggle following withdrawal of US troops.

Assad would remain in power in the richest part of the country, with bitter sectarian fury reigning in the country's eastern hinterland.

But it has lost its halo as a voice for the oppressed and downtrodden, and has exposed itself as a partisan and sectarian party that will side with Iran and its allies even at the expense of human rights and human lives in neighboring Syria.

Likewise, the revival of the Shia-Sunni civil war in Iraq largely reflects the sectarian rule of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.