Word: sectarian
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...time of sectarian divisiveness, Brooks urged unity and common cause in service to humanity. He proposed that the University construct a building, which, he said, "should be generously used for all the various interests of university life, and should unite and strengthen many undertakings which now rather tend to divide the forces which make for good among the students." After Brooks' death in 1893, a group of alumni who followed and admired his teachings raised funds to build Phillips Brooks House...
...just two (quite similar, one might note) cultures, how will it work in, say, Bosnia, with three, or India or America, with dozens? One looks at Canada and wonders whether the current naive and confident American celebration of cultural diversity--with its insistence on group rights over individual rights, sectarian history over American history, ethnic culture over a common culture--is leading us down a path from which there is no escape...
They notice him, the sectarian haters who suck whiskey and resentment in Belfast's bars, and they accord respect. Victor Kelly is a young swaggerer, a gifted thug with the flash and cold nerve to force a terrified man of the opposing tribe to his knees, then cut his throat with a filleting knife. Kelly's bunch are Protestants, and the enemy tribe Catholics, though it matters not a Mass or a damn because pure enmity on both sides, cherished and nurtured from childhood, now and forevermore, is the city's religion...
...killings of the consular workers were the first in recent memory that both involved foreigners in Karachi and were not connected directly with crime or sectarian strife. That led some diplomats in Karachi to speculate that the attackers were Islamic militants angry at Pakistan's extradition to the U.S. in February of Ramsi Yousef, suspected mastermind of New York City's 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Others suggest it may have been a deliberate attack on CIA employee Durell, pointing out that only he was directly fired upon. Van Landingham died because she was sitting beside Durell and came...
...bombings, shootings and the heavy presence of British military patrols have been vastly reduced. A great many citizens do not want to see a return to the violence that has killed more than 3,000 people since the British army was sent into Northern Ireland in 1969 to stop sectarian clashes. The international community has offered enticing financial incentives. Major and Bruton are betting that even if the Unionist politicians walk out on the process, they will not find thousands of Protestants lined up behind them shouting, as they have in the past, ``Ulster says...