Sentences with phrase «various secular states»

It has its centre in the Temple at Jerusalem with a small amount of contiguous territory, but the writ of its ecclesiastical government runs through hundreds of Jewish colonies, spread over the whole civilized world, and owing political allegiance to various secular states.

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But various historians, many of them «secular», have stated that based on the various tests for historic reliability, the Gospels are some of the most historically reliable documents of that time period.

The only country which consciously put «belief in the Transcendent» as one of the five foundations of the Constitution of the nation - state and recognized religious pluralism and brought the various religions and secular ideologies together for dialogue on the basis of legal equality was Soekarno's Indonesia.

Most western states are secular states, even as they accommodate various forms of religious establishment and accommodation.

As our primary children have returned to public school throughout the country, they will be joined by a growing legion of workers from para-church groups like ACCESS, Scripture Union, Genr8, YouthWorks, OAC, and the Child Evangelical Fellowship, who exploit various exceptions in State and Territory education acts that have been created to undermine the secular principle of public education.

Members of our Tax Group advise clients regarding the federal, state and local income tax consequences of various types of compensation arrangements, ranging from nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, including rabbi trusts and secular trusts, to complex equity incentive arrangements for participants in partnerships and limited liability companies.