Word: secularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, produced haunting images: 416 children, the girls in calico dresses, removed from log cabin homes, looking questioningly into nowhere as they were led from their polygamist enclave into a secular world they have always been taught to fear. They sang hymns as they were driven away along with 139 adult women from Eldorado's Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a renegade branch of the Mormon faith...
...literary works. Walk with fear and humility past Memorial Church—the bells themselves may be spies. Tread softly past the alarmed busts in Annenberg—listen closely for the pitter-patter of their ivory feet. Touristas, avert your wide eyes from the sparkling allure if the secular stained glasses (the largest collection in the world!) for they may shatter and mercilessly shank you. To death. All we can count on now, dear readers, is one another. The Science Center catastrophe has shown us that these monstrous edifices have gained too much power, and we need to support...
...nearly 65% of the nation's voting population had exercised their franchise. Politicians of all factions proudly strutted before the ballot box, wreathed in flower garlands, sporting triumphant smiles. They were all participating in a process that aims to replace Nepal's 240-year-old monarchy with a secular republic-a transition that, although turbulent, has given this impoverished nation of 27 million newfound optimism...
...function on its own right now. If they leave; Iraq will fall into chaos and that would be no good for the American reputation." He didn't really prefer one candidate over the other, an opinion shared even by members of parliament. Says Alia Nasayif Jasim of the secular Iraqi National Accord bloc: "As Iraqis, from what we've seen of the bitterness in the American relationship with the Middle East, we don't think it matters who holds the presidency...
...government backed Maliki's statement, even his allies acknowledged it would be an uphill battle. "Let's be realistic, Maliki's main goal is to wipe out the Sadrists before elections because he knows his bloc will lose to them," Alia Nasayif Jasim, a legislator from the secular Iraqi National Accord party, told TIME. "It is impossible to wipe out the Sadrists. If the government is serious, it should dissolve all militias including those linked to the government. If it goes after all the militias equally, the Sadrists will agree to disband...