It was intended to check the tendency to secularize benefices. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
But what if these deeply Islamic countries don't want to secularize?. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: The Water Walker] Reference
If we want to secularize the time off, I'd hit Easter over winterfest. From Wordnik.com. [Atheist Fears] Reference
Addison too wished to secularize, completing Socrates 'achievement of bringing. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Secular Conviviality] Reference
He promises also to introduce legislation to further secularize Israeli society. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Israelis Prepare to Elect New Prime Minister - February 3, 2001] Reference
Haider had been quoted as saying the government wanted to secularize the country. From Wordnik.com. [Muzzling The Militants] Reference
The ACLU, People For The American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. From Wordnik.com. [Maddie Lear: Dear Jerry Falwell] Reference
Efforts to secularize history distort the forces that shaped the world in which we live. From Wordnik.com. [TEXAS FAITH: What's the role of religion in public education? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com] Reference
Could a move towards "inclusionary cosmopolitanism," then, serve also to de-secularize it?. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
The movement to secularize every thing and every place is as pernicious as it is aggressive. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-23] Reference
It tends to secularize the sacred into totalitarian forms of government the other way around. From Wordnik.com. [More on Robin of Berkeley’s change story] Reference
My goal is not only to awaken, but also to demystify and secularize the path to enlightenment. From Wordnik.com. [Open Practice in Buddhism] Reference
Jerry Falwell is accusing People For The American Way of attempting to secularize this country. From Wordnik.com. [Maddie Lear: Dear Jerry Falwell] Reference
I imagine the other two authors would, in their different fashions, agree: the need to secularize secularism. From Wordnik.com. [Afterword: Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism] Reference
They actively sought (most radically in Turkey) to secularize their societies, particularly in law and education. From Wordnik.com. [F. The Middle East and North Africa, 1914-1945] Reference
An-Na`im wants a secular arrangement but he insists that he merely wants to secularize the state, and not society. From Wordnik.com. [Wednesday, July 02, 2008] Reference
East African leaders helped secularize it, offering the conversation - inducing leaves to visiting foreign dignitaries. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Some movements seek to secularize Buddhism, removing all that inconvenient karmic stuff and focusing on scientific benefits. From Wordnik.com. [Shambhala SunSpace » Claire Heisler – Sun Staff] Reference
In one corner, self-styled Muslim critics demand that the Islamic tradition secularize along the same course as western society. From Wordnik.com. [Abbas Barzegar: Rethinking Islamic Reform: Finding Tough Answers the Hard Way] Reference
They wanted to secularize the religious system of Iran and weaken the place of velayat-e faqih by turning it into a ceremonial post. From Wordnik.com. [Let the Swords Encircle Me] Reference
People for the American Way, all of us who have tried to secularize America, I shake their hand and say, “We helped this happen”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » A Dilemma] Reference
A systematic attempt is being made to secularize education, and to drive every indication of religious faith from the primary schools. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Politico writes unsaid but implied was that the new Democratic White House was behind such a move to secularize the nation ` s currency. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2009] Reference
Seeking to secularize and rationalize superstitions about ghosts and the afterlife, the phantasmagoria did not exorcise them, but actually. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_] Reference
People for the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'. From Wordnik.com. [April 2006] Reference
Schmitt on Wednesday ordered city maintenance workers to move a Christmas tree and wire reindeer next to the nativity display to secularize the display. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
If the Soviets were trying to secularize the Afghans (or the Yemenis or any of their other clients), the U.S. would counter by funding religious zealotry. From Wordnik.com. [Geoffrey Wawro: Afghanistan: The End Is Near, and We've Been There Before] Reference
Sounds like the pope's real intent is to secularize the world by making Catholicism irrelevant and out of touch with people and understanding and compassion. From Wordnik.com. [badger Diary Entry] Reference
But the problem here is that Dawkins, and many other leading popularizers of Science, lend the authority of science to those who seek to thoroughly secularize society. From Wordnik.com. [Advice for the Theistic Evolutionists] Reference
Much like the demonstrators and dissidents of today, he and his fellow travelers cut their teeth over a decade prior resisting the Shah's efforts to secularize the country. From Wordnik.com. [Kevin Sullivan: Western Hubris Won't Reform Iran] Reference
In 1834, the newly independent state of Mexico issued a decree to secularize control of the California missions and their properties. From Wordnik.com. [San Bernardino County Sun Most Viewed] Reference
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