Sectarian

//sɛkˈtɛəɹi.ən//

"Sectarian" in a Sentence (9 examples)

The now ubiquitous occurrence of sectarian violence is the product of growing tensions between the country's different ethnic groups.

Sectarian violence is an unwelcome reality for the city's population.

As too often, those trumpeting the benefits of globalization have ignored inequality within and among nations; have ignored the enduring appeal of ethnic and sectarian identities; have left international institutions ill-equipped, underfunded, under-resourced, in order to handle transnational challenges.

People who talk to you all the time about mosques, Islam and the prophet urge you to normalize sectarian thinking.

Jihadist and sectarian violence has increased in Mali.

Lebanon needs to get rid of its sectarian system.

Lebanon's root problem lies in its sectarian politics.

We were discussing solutions to the sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shias.

An American sectarian, who has always lived within the high walls and in the close atmosphere of our intense sect-life here, and has always been accustomed to the dragonism of sect-authority and sect-jealousy, —is utterly amazed when for the first time he looks over his native sect-walls and comes to see the freedom of thought and utterance within the old churches of Europe.

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