Spending any length of time with De Beers managers can feel like a visit to a religious sect.
The religious sect dominated Baghdad's political system and armed forces under Saddam Hussein.
Those arrested include the mother of the child, and the suspects are said to be members of a religious sect.
The Alevis, a big religious sect that numbers up to a quarter of Turkey's population of 62m, are suspicious of Mr Erbakan.
Divisions of tribe, ethnicity and religious sect were manipulated as a means of holding on to power, or taking it away from somebody else.
In 18th- and early 19th-century Britain a sizable chunk of the nation's economy was run by members of the religious sect known as the Quakers.
We see the emergence of an almost-religious sect in Embassytown rise up to preach against the lies, to warn against evil, led by the simile Valdik.
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Divided by tribe, wealth and religious sect, Pakistanis often seem to share little but a waning enmity towards India, the sacred spring from which the army draws its strength.
The Mungiki militia, which are loyal to Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe, began as a religious sect, but over the years has morphed into a gang that runs protection rackets -- particularly in the slums.
To many of us, the Druids sound as if they have walked straight out of a science fiction novel, or perhaps even suggest something sinister akin to a strange cult or weird religious sect.
The place is provincial England, the time is the nineteen-eighties, and the hero is Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner), a shy and studious boy who lives with his mother among the Plymouth Brethren, a religious sect.
"With all due respect, the Patriarch, the Synod and the Patriarchate find your letter surprising and unacceptable since it constitutes an outright and inappropriate interference in their autonomy as a religious sect and in the religious freedom of members of the Greek Orthodox congregation, " it said.
Determining what doctrine drives your enemy, especially one that can explain both the recruitment capabilities of your enemy and how he is able to bridge cultural, language, and nationality differences, and even intra-religious sect animosities, to come together to fight the West as the common enemy is the second step to defeating the enemy.
The accusations come amid mounting pressure to report allegations of abuse within the insular, secretive community, the largest outside Israel, and were reported barely a week after a respected religious counselor in the same sect was sentenced to 103 years in prison for sexually abusing a girl.
The arrest of Yoel Malik, 33, of Brooklyn comes amid mounting pressure to report allegations of abuse within the insular, secretive community, the largest outside Israel, and barely a week after a respected religious counselor in the same sect was sentenced to 103 years in prison for sexually abusing a girl.
Based on the island of Lanzarote, this sect offers hope in a morally bankrupt post-religious society by promising immortality.
Japan, which has local police forces rather than a real national one and is hesitant, for historical reasons, about interfering with religious groups, may be the only industrial democracy where a sect like Aum Shinrikyo could have gathered so much destructive power.
Nor does it help that every Muslim sect, society and state has developed differing versions of religious law.
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