Sample Sentences for
sectarian
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  • This thing with Franny is strictly non-sectarian.†  (source)
  • It is a non-sectarian program emphasizing the love of God and a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and drug abstinence.†  (source)
  • We can understand the emotions generated by Northern Ireland's troubles, but we cannot really believe, as we approach the 21st century, there is not a better way forward to the future than murder, terrorism and sectarian hatred.†  (source)
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  • Like failed sectarian suicides.†  (source)
  • Passionate faith I am suspicious of because it hangs witches and burns heretics, and generally I am more in sympathy with the witches and heretics than with the sectarians who hang and burn them.†  (source)
  • With her little, pedagogic sectarianism she remembered that Catholics do not do this thing.†  (source)
  • Towards this end, we propose the establishment of a World Peace Center, international and nonsectarian, which will serve as a laboratory of research and planning for peace education throughout the world.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonsectarian means not and reverses the meaning of sectarian. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
  • It was not to be the temple of any particular creed, but an interdenominational, non-sectarian monument to religion, a cathedral of faith, open to all.†  (source)
  • Occasionally he paid official visits to country districts where he behaved with dignity both to his superiors and inferiors, and performed the duties entrusted to him, which related chiefly to the sectarians, with an exactness and incorruptible honesty of which he could not but feel proud.†  (source)
  • Had he felt the need of an implicit faith amid the welter of sectarianism and the jargon of its turbulent schisms, six principle men, peculiar people, seed and snake baptists, supralapsarian dogmatists?†  (source)
  • Morrison is American, of course, and raised in the Protestant tradition, but the Bible is nonsectarian.†  (source)
  • He convinced Mortenson to stay at an inexpensive guest house he knew in Islamabad, in a much safer location than his old standby, the Khyaban, where sectarian bomb blasts had begun terrorizing the neighborhood nearly every Friday after Juma prayers.†  (source)
  • But not many people had then been directly dependent on him — only police officials and the sectarians when he went on special missions — and he liked to treat them politely, almost as comrades, as if he were letting them feel that he who had the power to crush them was treating them in this simple, friendly way.†  (source)
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