What's the difference between fratricidal and sectarian?

Fratricidal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to fratricide; of the nature of fratricide.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added that some postings were "rhetoric that brings back memories of tragic, fratricidal, factional conflicts in the 1990s that cost the lives of tens of thousands of civilians".
  • (2) Andrew Cooper, Conservative peer: ‘It is no accident that Fallon used Miliband’s political fratricide as his simile’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Andrew Cooper.
  • (3) The fratricidal fighting erupted several weeks before a much-anticipated detente scheduled for 22 January in Geneva, adding another layer of complexity to a war that long ago ceased to have two clear-cut protagonists.
  • (4) Referring to Cain's fratricide, the authors investigate the origin of guilt.
  • (5) Though Ed Miliband has been happy to admit past Labour errors on Murdoch and other matters, his appetite for political fratricide may be sated.
  • (6) So both sides in this fratricidal power struggle are left weakened.
  • (7) Of course, it is no accident that the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, chose to use Miliband’s political fratricide as his simile.
  • (8) Tragically, there is the possibility that 'fratricide' may have been involved."
  • (9) Look around the Tory party today, and chaos reigns; Britain feels more socially fratricidal than I have ever known it.
  • (10) For the radical socialist left in Scotland, this is the continuation of a fratricidal nightmare.
  • (11) Rather it is that religious prejudice, once awakened, is destablising, fratricidal, and difficult for anyone to control.
  • (12) He was a good lad.” I remarked what an extraordinary testament it was to the mindless, fratricidal nature of the conflict that he was mourning the death of one of his captors.
  • (13) George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March is about a Democratic primary campaign unfolding in the key state of Ohio, in an atmosphere heavy with fratricidal betrayal behind the scenes.
  • (14) The speed and extent of peptide-induced changes in the appearance of CTLs suggest that the destruction may be due primarily to self-recognition and self-destruction of individual CTLs (suicide) rather than to the destruction of some CTLs by others of the same clone in the same culture (fratricide).
  • (15) After being at each other's throats for years in fratricidal wars, we're now all culturally European."
  • (16) There was talk of fratricide, and comparisons were made with Cain and Abel.

Sectarian


Definition:

  • (n.) Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.
  • (n.) One of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More seriously, but no less predictably, the inflaming of sectarianism will have knock-on effects in Syria and Iraq.
  • (2) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
  • (3) They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers.
  • (4) Iraqi politicians started to brand themselves as cross-sectarian nationalists who wanted to build a unified Iraq.
  • (5) In the Punjab, the eastern province, the movement has been able to forge ad hoc links with fragmented sectarian groups or freelance operators who have split away from bigger, more established organisations that are under close watch by intelligence agencies, the officials said.
  • (6) She rejected recent criticism that she has not been sufficiently outspoken against sectarian violence in her country, particularly attacks on the Rohingya Muslim minority in the west of the country.
  • (7) Almost three years after US troops withdrew from Iraq and 11 years after their invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, the war on Islamic State is drawing Washington back into the middle of Iraq’s power struggles and bloody sectarian strife.
  • (8) If so, they will be more jihadist, sectarian, brutal and anti-western when they take Damascus.
  • (9) Early in the unrest protesters carried crosses and shouted anti-sectarian slogans: "Muslims, Christians, Alawis are all one."
  • (10) It is a microcosm of the region’s maladies and the trauma they have wrought on civilian lives – there are people here who have been wounded in sectarian bloodletting, shelling, airstrikes, occupation and crackdowns by dictators.
  • (11) Bridging the Muslim-Christian divide and climate issues are major themes of the trip that also takes him to Uganda, which like Kenya has been a victim of extremist attacks, and the Central African Republic, a nation riven by sectarian conflict.
  • (12) I grew up in Northern Ireland and it’s Paisleyite language being used to describe the effects of not being in the EU: ‘We will lose 3m jobs and the people who aren’t in it are little Englanders’ … It’s almost sectarian, the language.
  • (13) Thank God we have succeeded in ridding ourselves of sectarianism and racism."
  • (14) The detainees include Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, a political opposition leader, and Ebrahim Sharif, the leader of a cross-sectarian political party and one of the few Sunni Bahrainis to have been jailed for his part in the protest movement.
  • (15) In South Sudan, where civil war broke out a year ago, 1.5 million people are severely food insecure, while the sectarian violence that has plagued CAR since March has left a quarter of the population – more than 1 million people – displaced within its borders or in neighbouring countries.
  • (16) I have been telling them for years that there is a leader (Maliki) that is sectarian, a one-man band who listens to no-one else.
  • (17) "He not only followed US Apache helicopters' trails of death and destruction, but he was also among the first to report every 'sectarian' atrocity and the bombing of popular market places.
  • (18) Central African Republic is in danger of becoming the world's latest failed state , with increasing sectarian violence sparking a humanitarian disaster.
  • (19) "The killing of Zahra Shahid Hussain was a conspiracy by someone who wants to take advantage, to bring Karachi to another test in terms of sectarian and political polarisation," he said.
  • (20) There were also attempts to portray the violence as sectarian in nature.

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