Sectarian in a sentence

The proposed amendments would transfer authority over marriage, divorce, inheritance, and adoption from civil courts to sectarian institutions, raising fears of increased sectarian influence and reduced rights.

Many in the IRA opposed these sectarian attacks, but others deemed them effective in preventing sectarian attacks on Catholics.

A drunk who started singing a Rangers sectarian song as police were trying to deal with an ongoing incident has insisted he is not anti-Catholic.

Although he has since been derided for his role in the second Gulf War, Tony Blair can also take credit for helping to end one of the most violent sectarian conflicts in post-War European history.

As sectarian tensions flared over the rape and killing of a Rakhine ethnic woman in May 2012, three reports from the Information Ministry arrived in the newsroom of the state-run Myanma Alin newspaper with orders to publish them without fail.

As the tension forces thousands to live in temporary camps, over 550 civil society groups in an open letter urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his silence over the sectarian violence.

Both the police and the military were implicated in the excessive use of force and other serious abuses while responding to the rioting and sectarian violence.

Coupled with radical sectarian politics, Bengal’s last opportunity at “sub-nationality” was destroyed before Partition.

Eight school teachers were killed on Thursday in two separate incidents of targeted shooting in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal district, bordering Afghanistan, in a case of possible sectarian violence, police said.

Gen. Kyanda remarked that unity is the foundation of any military and called for a campaign against sectarian tendencies, mentioning that these derail development.

In a sweeping critique, he lambasted the BJP for its alleged failure to meet poll promises, accused it of using religion as a smokescreen, and expressed alarm at the rise of sectarian violence in states such as Manipur and Haryana.

In India's Manipur state, ongoing sectarian violence has thus far claimed nearly 200 lives and displaced over 50,000 people in the last three months.

In some cases, the debate took on a sectarian nature, with many politicians and institutions, including the small nation’s largest church, the Maronite Church, rejecting the move.

Nigeria is also a bitterly divided country, facing serious sectarian crises and agitations for the dissolution of the federation.

Nothing like a bit of good, old-fashioned sectarian hatred to put you in your place!

Only a few people in one of the bars were injured, but the attacks sparked fears that sectarian terror would erupt in Scotland.

Or is he now reduced to being an instrument of sectarian Israeli politics, simply trying to score political points with his base?

Similarly, the peace deal commits itself to the right to freedom from sectarian harassment.

The claims that he had made sectarian remarks and that the offence was aggravated by religious prejudice were deleted by prosecutors.

The division by the consultants, prompted the other adherents of the divide to flock to Afghanistan to be trained as snipers and even slip over to that country after any episode of sectarian massacre.