How to Use nonsectarian in a Sentence

nonsectarian

adjective

• There are three teachers in each classroom and an average of 15 students per class, and the school is independent and nonsectarian.
  — Nadine Jolie Courtney, Town & Country, 11 Oct. 2016
• Sadr presents himself as a nonsectarian nationalist opposed to both the United States’ and Iran’s influence in his country.
  — Reuters, Washington Post, 23 June 2018
• In Lebanon's 2018 parliamentary elections, a coalition of nonsectarian activists known as Kolouna Watani also burst onto the elections' scene.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 26 Oct. 2019
• Unionist voters punished it for that U-turn, with some voting for a more hard-line unionist party and others turning to a nonsectarian centrist party, the Alliance, which also scored major gains.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2022
• Among its actions Thursday, the Senate gave preliminary approval to a bill that would delete a requirement that a private school be nonsectarian in order to be approved as a school tuition program.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 May 2021
• In the 2010 parliamentary elections, one of Maliki’s rivals, boasting a nonsectarian base of support, won the most seats, though not a majority.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The Rotary's four-way test's profound and nonsectarian questions had to be incorporated into the speeches.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• The tuition case comes from Maine, where state law requires that a government-assistance program can only be used to pay for private education at nonsectarian schools.
  — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 2 July 2021
• These free, nonsectarian independent, public schools are open to and welcome all students.
  — Aaliyah Hodge and Joe Nathan, Star Tribune, 21 June 2021
• Mount Peace was established in 1900 as a private, nonsectarian option for African Americans.
  — Melanie Burney, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
• Only a handful of charges were filed until Zia added several Islam-specific clauses to this nonsectarian code.
  — Myriam Renaud, The Conversation, 5 July 2023
• As Iraqis struggled to reconstitute their state, no single actor had the power or incentive to disband these groups or force them to enter a national, nonsectarian military.
  — Steven Simon and Adam Weinstein, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2023
• More recently, the nation’s highest court ruled last year – in a case originating in Maine – that any state tuition assistance made available to families should be allowed for use at religious private schools, not just nonsectarian ones.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2023
• My child’s teacher is teaching doctrinal errors related to my religion, despite the school’s claim of being nonsectarian.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
• As discontent with the country's sectarian leaders brewed in recent years, multiple nonsectarian groups have cropped up on the political landscape.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 26 Oct. 2019
• Along with being the first, today the National Business League is the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan and nonsectarian Black business professional and trade association.
  — Scott Talley, Freep.com, 22 Jan. 2022
• Brandeis is a private, nonsectarian university that was founded on Jewish values.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• The circumstances were uniquely favorable for such moderate center-right parties, which claimed a religious, though nonsectarian, inspiration.
  — chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Moving forward, these findings predict an uphill battle for nonsectarian civil society groups.
  — Amanda Rizkallah, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
• First, this election reaffirmed that — despite years of stereotyping to the contrary — many Iraqis are comfortable voting for alliances headed by candidates of different ethno-sectarian communities or for nonsectarian platforms.
  — Zaid Al-Ali, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• The university, a private nonsectarian research institution, has been careful in clarifying that this chair is not intended to proselytize on atheism’s behalf.
  — Isabel Fattal, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2018
• The Chamber bylaws state that its activities shall be nonpartisan, nonsectional and nonsectarian.
  — Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
• In 2010, a nonsectarian hospital in Tucson dissolved a two-year trial merger with a Catholic system a year early, after administrators refused a doctor permission to perform an emergency termination for a patient suffering a miscarriage.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024