He spoke about preserving the country as a secular state.

他谈到保持该国的非宗教国性质。

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They were really the ones that we wanted to have help run the country; they actually understood how the country ran; they spoke English; they were much more secular, in most cases.

他们知道国家如何运转，能说英语，大多数情况下非常世俗化。

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"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is a popular secular sixteenth-century English carol from the West Country of England.

我们祝你圣诞快乐是十六世纪来自英国的英格兰岛的流行的一种世俗颂歌。

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But newspaper columnist and political scientist Nuray Mert says the search of Saylan's home has caused great unease among many secular people in the country.

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Nor does it make sense, in a largely secular country, to give special status to all faiths.

ECONOMIST: Church and state

Yet Syria is a staunchly secular country, where membership in the Muslim Brotherhood carries a long jail sentence.

ECONOMIST: Reactions in the region

In the South the secular country-club party wing of the Republican vote is used to teaming up with the fundamentalists.

ECONOMIST: The battle for the South