Has the region been sectarianized? Yes.

Well psychology actually says there is a tension a tension between self regarding behaviors and other regarding behaviors.

This led to tension between the group and Gilmore.

The new Iraqi army can hardly be called non sectarian.

Twitter users also were busy in expressing their opinions

The war has pulverized Iraqi society, dissolving it into an ethno sectarian patchwork.

The delay has contributed to a tense situation in this vital area of the country.

There was a palpable buzz in the air as we convened in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.

Failing to secure the lives of all Bahrainis, regardless of their sect, is a sectarian statement in itself.

All federations have experienced periods of tense relations between the federal and state governments.

His relationship with Saleh frayed and his influence waning, al Ahmar understood that his loyalty to Saleh had become a liability.

Rejection and social isolation create emotional stress, exacerbating the physical effects of the disease.

However, tension between the interests of nations and the idea of the international community is inherent in the very nature of the State system.

The Ontario public school system offers quality education to all Ontario residents without discrimination on a non denominational basis.

The territorial issue concerning the border village of Yenga remains a source of tension between Guinea and Sierra Leone.

But, in the longer term, those limits on federal power will push Iraq toward a sectarian scramble for power and revenue.

The current dynamic isn't a conflict of sectarianism but a willful and cynical sectarianization of a regional power struggle. Iyad El Baghdadi ( iyad_elbaghdadi) January 13, 2016

He says it flares up whenever he gets stressed out and that seems to happen whenever he leaves Jeju Island.

Second, there is an underlying historical tension between the large Sunni majority and the Alevi Bektashi minority, loosely linked to Shia Islam.

Syria powerfully demonstrates how a fight against a dictator can soon turn into a sectarian struggle for survival or mastery.

It fails to acknowledge that Bahrainis who rose against the regime did not do so because they were Shia and the regime was Sunni.

To which Max Blumenthal responded by accusing Taglit, the 'birthright' agency that organizes trips to Israel for young Jewish adults around the world, of being a sectarian training program

The greatest tension on a space elevator cable is at the point of geostationary orbit, above the Earth's equator.

As in most new democracies and let us remember that democracy in Kosovo is only a few years old there is political tension.

El Baghdadi further explains the divide and conquer rift is political in nature and a willful and cynical sectarianization of a regional power struggle. He tweets

But both Japan and China recognize that further tension will serve neither country s long term interests.

The main battlefront for detractors of the Shahbag protests is now public perception, and this can have deadly consequences in a society where religious tension is constantly smoldering.

One strategy is if your call's down here, and the noise is in this band, you could shift the frequency of your call out of the noise band and communicate better.

In North America, there was significant tension between New France and the northern English colonies, which had in 1686 been united in the Dominion of New England.

We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate.

All of this has jangled nerves as did similar military posturing and diplomatic arm wrestling from 2009 to mid 2011.

The souring of relations with the US when American commandos penetrated deep into Pakistan to kill Bin Laden was the culmination of both countries mutual disappointment.

The recent violence in Khartoum and Juba undoubtedly strained intercommunal relations in those two cities.

The European Union urges Nigeria and Cameroon to work constructively together to establish the facts of the incidents and to defuse any resultant tension.

But, with Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki s government widely considered to be another authoritarian and sectarian regime, Iraq has not been able to gain any soft power.

At the Veterans Today website, a retired officer of the United States Coast Guard, Tom Barnes, says the news channel is playing up the stereotype to create us versus them tensions

Within the current caretaker Government, there have been some reports of tension between the parties over portfolios and prolonged delays over the allocation of the key sovereign and economic ministries.

Indeed, government forces have devolved into a sectarian army, motivated by the fear that, if the largely Sunni rebels are victorious, they will annihilate the Shia affiliated Alawite minority that has ruled Syria for decades.

But if market nervousness persists and interest rates remain high relative to rates for secure German debt, the debt burden will rapidly become unsustainable.

NEW YORK After the economic disaster of 2008 2009, people are understandably wary of the devastation that yet another financial crisis can wreak.

There can sometimes be tension between services for a number of other reasons, including professional versus voluntary crew members, or simply based on area or division.

Whatever the true figure, the involvement of large numbers of Iraqis is not the secret it was in the early months of Syria's civil war, which is now being fought along a sectarian faultline.

If there's tension in the village, if attendance at the schools goes down and there's a friction between the teacher and the parent, the puppet calls the teacher and the parent in front of the whole village and says, Shake hands.

Despite setting up a Joint River Commission for water management as early as 1972, tensions between the countries on how to share resources recently came to a head in a dispute over the Teesta River.

Contrasting the findings of these surveys demonstrates that over the two years when sectarian violence has increased, Iraqis increasingly view their fate in a national, rather than communal, context.