How to Use nonsectarian in a Sentence

nonsectarian

adjective
  • These free, nonsectarian independent, public schools are open to and welcome all students.
    — Aaliyah Hodge and Joe Nathan, Star Tribune, 21 June 2021
  • For decades in California, those dollars have only been permitted to go to schools that are nonsectarian.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
  • There are three teachers in each classroom and an average of 15 students per class, and the school is independent and nonsectarian.
    — Nadine Jolie Courtney, Town & Country, 11 Oct. 2016
  • My child’s teacher is teaching doctrinal errors related to my religion, despite the school’s claim of being nonsectarian.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The Rotary's four-way test's profound and nonsectarian questions had to be incorporated into the speeches.
    — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Only a handful of charges were filed until Zia added several Islam-specific clauses to this nonsectarian code.
    — Myriam Renaud, The Conversation, 5 July 2023
  • The tuition case comes from Maine, where state law requires that a government-assistance program can only be used to pay for private education at nonsectarian schools.
    — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 2 July 2021
  • Moving forward, these findings predict an uphill battle for nonsectarian civil society groups.
    — Amanda Rizkallah, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
  • Brandeis is a private, nonsectarian university that was founded on Jewish values.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Sadr presents himself as a nonsectarian nationalist opposed to both the United States’ and Iran’s influence in his country.
    — Reuters, Washington Post, 23 June 2018
  • As discontent with the country's sectarian leaders brewed in recent years, multiple nonsectarian groups have cropped up on the political landscape.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 26 Oct. 2019
  • As Iraqis struggled to reconstitute their state, no single actor had the power or incentive to disband these groups or force them to enter a national, nonsectarian military.
    — Steven Simon and Adam Weinstein, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The key difference is charter schools are privately operated, with most states, including Oklahoma, requiring they are run in a nonsectarian way.
    — Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Unionist voters punished it for that U-turn, with some voting for a more hard-line unionist party and others turning to a nonsectarian centrist party, the Alliance, which also scored major gains.
    — New York Times, 7 May 2022
  • Among its actions Thursday, the Senate gave preliminary approval to a bill that would delete a requirement that a private school be nonsectarian in order to be approved as a school tuition program.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 May 2021
  • The Hungarian state paid for most of it and required Rumbach to also operate as a nonsectarian cultural venue, which is why Fischer performs here.
    — Joshua Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The circumstances were uniquely favorable for such moderate center-right parties, which claimed a religious, though nonsectarian, inspiration.
    — chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Mount Peace was established in 1900 as a private, nonsectarian option for African Americans.
    — Melanie Burney, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
  • In the 2010 parliamentary elections, one of Maliki’s rivals, boasting a nonsectarian base of support, won the most seats, though not a majority.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • The Chamber bylaws state that its activities shall be nonpartisan, nonsectional and nonsectarian.
    — Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
  • More recently, the nation’s highest court ruled last year – in a case originating in Maine – that any state tuition assistance made available to families should be allowed for use at religious private schools, not just nonsectarian ones.
    — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2023
  • The university, a private nonsectarian research institution, has been careful in clarifying that this chair is not intended to proselytize on atheism’s behalf.
    — Isabel Fattal, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2018
  • In Lebanon's 2018 parliamentary elections, a coalition of nonsectarian activists known as Kolouna Watani also burst onto the elections' scene.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 26 Oct. 2019
  • The Dalai Lama’s nonsectarian vision and unifying presence has helped Tibetans in exile avoid the fate of many diaspora communities that fall apart from internal strife, tribal loyalties, and turf wars.
    — Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
  • First, this election reaffirmed that — despite years of stereotyping to the contrary — many Iraqis are comfortable voting for alliances headed by candidates of different ethno-sectarian communities or for nonsectarian platforms.
    — Zaid Al-Ali, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
  • Along with being the first, today the National Business League is the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan and nonsectarian Black business professional and trade association.
    — Scott Talley, Freep.com, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Most of the scholars Wiese discusses were rabbis, whether more traditional ones or proponents of radical reform, and this reflects the degree to which secular Jewish Studies, housed in nonsectarian universities, took longer to develop.
    — Josh Lambert, JSTOR Daily, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In 2010, a nonsectarian hospital in Tucson dissolved a two-year trial merger with a Catholic system a year early, after administrators refused a doctor permission to perform an emergency termination for a patient suffering a miscarriage.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020
  • By the 1970s, however, Christian private schools outnumbered the nonsectarian ones, which inspired political activism among Christian evangelists who had shown little political interest previously.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024

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