Sentences with phrase «along ethnic lines»

It has been war - torn since a political struggle in 2013, led to fighting, often along ethnic lines, resulting in as many as 300,000 being killed and 3 million displaced.

Under the terms of the constitution fresh elections were conducted in December 2005, but the three major ethnic groups voted along ethnic lines and no consensus was reached.

IPOB also warned that failure to divide Nigeria along ethnic lines and value systems, many more people will die.

(Montenegro split off from Serbia in 2006 but almost 30 % of its population is Serbian, and many of its institutions are still divided along ethnic lines.)

Orthodoxy in America became splintered not just along ethnic lines but along political lines, as well.

Both have built coalitions with other influential communities in a country where voting still takes place largely along ethnic lines.

«At a time when the progressive agenda was under siege in Albany, and petty differences threatened to divide Black and Latino lawmakers along ethnic lines, Adriano Espaillat displayed exactly the kind of leadership we needed,» Camara said.

Two years ago, State Senator Adriano Espaillat warned the congressional race in Upper Manhattan may turn into a «nuclear political war» fought along ethnic lines.

«One thing that's prevalent in the Muslim community is people generally search along ethnic lines or family backgrounds because family is a big part of Muslim marriage on both sides,» he said.

While it might be crass, (and reduce all us voters to mindless drones incapable of formulating an opinion based on issues) if we look at this race through the assumption that people tend to vote along ethnic lines, then the largest voting bloc in Queens i.e.the Rockaways and Jamaica will vote for City Councilman Leroy Comrie.

But while pristine «restructuring» was clear — at least to the Afenifere camp: remaking Nigeria along ethnic lines to form some cultural federalism, the latest strain, even within the camp, is not so clear.

Too often theological beliefs break down along ethnic lines or by geographical regions with intolerance being the outcome.

The more the Federal Government tarries over these heinous criminals, the more the president gets gravely de-marketed, along ethnic lines.

A fifth of Liberia's registered voters are aged 18 - 22 and are less likely, analysts say, to vote along ethnic lines or to support candidates like Prince Johnson, a former rebel leader who maintains a strong following in northeastern Nimba county.

«What the spate of killings, arbitrary arrests, illegal detentions and political intimidations deployed by the controllers of the levers of power in Nigeria has done is to reinforce the message of IPOB that total dismemberment of Nigeria along ethnic lines and value system is the only solution going forward.