Soon, people outside the sect began to seek out Quakers as trading partners, suppliers and sellers.
Hutterites are an Anabaptist sect, founded by Austrian preacher Jakob Hutter, in the 16th Century.
Most Burundians are Catholic and the official church has distanced itself from the sect.
The Mungiki is an outlawed sect made up of members of the Kikuyu tribe.
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Members of the pushti marg sect, who commissioned these works, adore him for it all.
The settlers and the Hasidic Lubavitch sect were his most ardent campaigners in the 1996 election.
Its biggest competitors in the clothing sect suffered no such slumps this past quarter.
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The accused, a man and two women, allegedly said they belonged to a sect.
Especially in the mixed-sect province of Diyala, grumbling among the Sahwa-supporting sheikhs may be rising.
There, members of an adventurous sect of American brewers are creating an astonishing and ancient beer anew.
So sayeth the leader of the Dhammakaya sect, a Thai Buddhist version of the prosperity gospel hustle.
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Iran and Hezbollah are predominantly Shia, while Mr Assad's Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shia Islam.
You might also get some sense of which sect an Iraqi belongs to from his family name.
And, you know, there's already been increased identification with one's own sect over the past three years.
The Methodists, for example, flourished in the 19th century, when they were seen as an extremist sect.
Spending any length of time with De Beers managers can feel like a visit to a religious sect.
Nor does it help that every Muslim sect, society and state has developed differing versions of religious law.
And the weavers were a sect of Muslims in a largely Hindu area.
Syria is a nation with a Sunni majority governed by a minority Alawite, an offshoot sect of Shia Islam.
Based on the island of Lanzarote, this sect offers hope in a morally bankrupt post-religious society by promising immortality.
The use of a pretentious private vocabulary reassures authors and readers that they are initiates in an exclusive sect.
And as Quaker prosperity grew, people drew a connection between that prosperity and the sect's reputation for reliability and trustworthiness.
Those arrested include the mother of the child, and the suspects are said to be members of a religious sect.
Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad has surrounded himself primarily with members of his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Saudi billionaire (and member of the ruling sect) Alwaleed Bin Talal owns big stakes in Citigroup, The Walt Disney Co.
The Republican Party is becoming a perversely rigid sect, more concerned with being militantly correct than being pragmatic and successful.
Ultimately, he finds consolation in his relationship with his loyal dog, Fox, and in a sect known as the Elohimites.
The example of Holland proved that a toleration of sects dissenting from the established sect was safe, and even useful.
The isolated sect now dominates the towns of Colorado City, in Arizona, and Hildale, in Utah, less than a mile away.
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In Santa Monica, store manager William Lombardi learned that disciples of a local Buddhist sect eschew any food containing onion and garlic.
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