Word: nonsectarian
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That's like saying take other passengers off commercial airliners, and we'll all be flying around in roomy comfort like Forstmann on his Gulfstream. Politics is at the heart of the debate over who gets what and who pays for it--whether a free nonsectarian school is one of the gifts of being born in America...
Boston-based Peace Watch Ireland, members of which have traveled to Northern Ireland to observe marches and protests, was founded in 1994 to promote awareness of the Irish conflict in the U.S. The group, which is nonsectarian, has held a conference on militarization and its effects on human rights in Ireland...
...thing, Moyers' belief has an extremely well-exercised civic aspect. "What I have sought for 25 years to put on television is the conversation of democracy," he says. Although that conversation has been eclectic, with shows ranging from the cia to the black family, Moyers is convinced that "nonsectarian, nonseparationist" religious talk is an essential component. Repeatedly, while promoting the new series, he tells audiences, "We have to decide all over again our identity as a people. Religion belongs in that discussion. We must learn how to write a new story including the deepest beliefs of people...
...schools, using government money to cover most or all of the tuition. State-financed school-choice vouchers provide up to $2,250 a year to parents of 2,000 low-income children in kindergarten through third grade. The vouchers can be used to send the children either to a nonsectarian private school of the parents' choice or to a parochial school like St. Adalbert...
...ringing with calls for her head. Dhaka experienced an astonishing escalation of violent protests, bombings and clashes between Islamic militants and secularists. Nasrin's succes de scandale afforded conservative mullahs and their followers a means of increasing their influence in a country that is nearly 90% Muslim but traditionally nonsectarian in its government policies...