Sentences with phrase «of sectarian»

Libya is in the middle of a civil war, while Iraqi oil supplies are always at the mercy of sectarian violence.

At a moment when the daily exigencies of sectarian radicalism, latent disease, heightened inequality, financial instability, and political reform overlay longer trajectories of technological acceleration, economic transition, geopolitical rebalance, and environmental degradation, artists offer compelling interpretations of our larger surroundings.

Willie Doherty, from Derry, makes videos inspired by his experiences of sectarian hatred in the North.

Titled «Other & Father,» Mariah Garnett's first solo show at ltd los angeles revolved around a BBC television news feature shot in Belfast in 1971 that addressed the challenges faced by a young couple of different denominations at the start of the sectarian fray that came to be known as the Troubles.

It may be that the cessation of sectarian strife and the concentration of effort under one leader stimulated a great upsurge in all manner of creative enterprises.

Most important, he shows in painful but compulsively readable detail how a series of mishaps and mistakes by the U.S. and Jordanian governments gave this unschooled hoodlum his start as a terrorist superstar and set the Middle East on a path of sectarian violence that has proved hard to contain.

So while ugly episodes in our country's history should not be ignored, the relevance of sectarian strikes and nativists campaigns in the mid 19th century, to the current debates about school vouchers, and other important policy debates relating to the relationship between church and state, is highly suspect, I think, for several reasons.

«No revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution.»

Florida's constitution, for example, declares, «No revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution.»

Funding of sectarian schools was only one aspect of the controversy, and anti-Catholicism a subset thereof.

Such schools must be free - of - charge, free of sectarian instruction, open at least six months a year, and so on.

The term «uniformity» is included in many of our state constitutions, as are so - called Blaine Amendments that forbid the funding of sectarian schools.

Iraq is experiencing violence at levels similar to the height of its sectarian civil war more than five years ago, Afghanistan remains riddled with violence, and Libya resembles anything but a stable, secure and functioning state.

And while it may be hoped that the calls for peace from noted clerics might be all that is needed, unfortunately there is even more of a sectarian divide in the middle east than their was in northern ireland, and the IRA wasn't about to listen to the Archbishop of Canterbury either.

The handshake has been heralded as a milestone for Anglo - Irish relations after decades of sectarian violence.

Indonesia represents a case of sectarian discrimination, in which radical groups associated with the Muslim majority are attempting to assert their influence and establish dominance over the Christian minority.

Following the US overthrow of the regime, Iraq descended into the chaos of sectarian violence and civil war.

Daoudy thinks that though civil war is looming, Syria has no history of sectarian strife.

The 32 - year - old Little, who bristles with purpose, works and drives both sides of every sectarian street.

I believe that the claims of the sectarian scientist are, to say the least, premature.

I think it fair to say, what I have not found anyone saying, that Whitehead was an articulate defender of sectarian vs. ecclesiastical Christianity.

On the Protestant side, he tried to stake out a via media between the compromised theology of Harry Emerson Fosdick and his successors on the one hand and the truncated ecclesiology and harsh temperament of sectarian fundamentalism on the other.

Only when the gentile Church took over and overshadowed the Jewish church, could there be any possibility of sectarian stigma attaching to the name «Nazarene» within the church itself.

The March 4 atrocity illustrated the brutal nature of sectarian violence, revealing lessons for all believers in the monotheistic faiths, Christian, Muslim, or Jewish (the last had a thriving community in Yemen until the 20th century).

Years of sectarian conflict and the brutal, so - called caliphate of the Islamic State threaten all Iraqis, not least of all paperless deportees from the United States.

Because of the sectarian nature of Lebanese politics, modern Lebanese history is rife with coups, invasions, civil wars and government shutdowns.

It was partly because of sectarian strife that the humanist concern with the importance of human reason reappeared.

Anyone who wants to «prove» their case on the authority of the Bible, and particularly the New Testament, should investigate thoroughly how these writings came to be in their present form — not just adopting the dogma of sectarian seminaries but also finding out what more independent and objective scholars have to say on the matter.

And a major downturn in the economy could witness a new round of sectarian splinter groups.

Then, into the mix of sectarian confusion, Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, et.

No public money shall ever be appropriated for the support of any sectarian... school.

In the same issue, James Nuechterlein argues («In Defense of Sectarian Catholicity») that catholic orthodoxy can nonetheless exist in places outside the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

The lonely prophets of Christian unity whose voices have cried in the wilderness of our sectarian complacency for many decades now began to be heeded.

The beginning of the sectarian conflict started when Assad used Alawaite death squad militias.

Typical factors of a psychological and sociological nature are of considerable consequence, for example, the typical make - up of the potential sectarian or of the sectarian leader, of the sectarian audience, of the urban parishioner, and of the ecclesiastical bureaucrat.

As in the case of the other religions of the world, Christianity has splintered into a variety of sectarian subsystems whose doctrinal boundaries have often hardened to the point of making conversation extremely difficult.

And the laws that forbid all manner of discrimination seem to emanate from a disinterested public «ethic,» suitably cleansed of any sectarian shading.

But such a posture does not mean withdrawing behind the lines of a dogmatic stance, or into the confines of a sectarian life.

It furnished another instance of a sectarian outburst, which must be expected so long as sectarian attitudes hold priority over penitence in a divided church.

To establish justice on the basis of sectarian authority alone is to do violence to our very confession that all persons bear the image of God, and that all persons carry a knowledge of the good.

Many Protestants were tiring of provincialism; their churches were breaking out of sectarian isolation.

As Iraq continued to lose all semblance of order, Al - Doura steadily fell under the sway of the insurgents and became a hornet's nest of sectarian violence.

It brought instead a «sea of sectarian rivalries» that led to «religious ferment, chaos, and originality unmatched in American history.»

Such a balance of distaste might well hint at the coherence and integrity of sectarian Christianity in the U.S., at least as it concerns such churches» ability to incorporate socially marginal groups into a community that provides the basis and the tools for purposeful and materially sufficient existence.

Believers in Egypt have long complained of the threat of sectarian violence and institutional discrimination and there has been repeated pledges by President Abdel Fattah el - Sisi to protect Christians.

This means that the reader can be assured that the book is pure of sectarian or theological contamination as it follows the by - now quaint - sounding criteria of a history objective and scientific.

Republicans may even have hoped that their embrace of sectarian strife would transcend sectional divisions — uniting not only liberal and nativist sentiment, but also North and South, in a campaign against Catholicism.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan told Facebook Inc on Thursday that it should consider establishing a special team to respond more quickly to threats of sectarian violence in countries such as Myanmar that are at high risk.

Earlier announcements by the Shi'ite militias that they will be involved in the offensive on Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, triggered warnings from human rights groups of sectarian violence in the mainly Sunni province.

Savonarola had such a dream in fifteenth - century Florence, as did the Anabaptists in sixteenth - century Germany and some of the sectarians during the civil war in seventeenth - century England.