Especially in the mixed-sect province of Diyala, grumbling among the Sahwa-supporting sheikhs may be rising.
They are discovering that it is left-leaning, sensible-looking, and not the nutty sect of Welsh-language zealots that Labour had warned them to stay away from.
Last year, police destroyed a sanctuary of the sect in Kayanza - its stronghold - and its followers retaliated by breaking up a Sunday service at a local Catholic church, she says.
We see the emergence of an almost-religious sect in Embassytown rise up to preach against the lies, to warn against evil, led by the simile Valdik.
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The 10, 000-strong sect, which dominates the towns of Colorado City in Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, split from the mainstream Mormon church more than a century ago.
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At the same time, the number of Shia MPs has risen from five to nine, closer to the minority sect's 20%-plus share of the population.
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If only the head of the peaceable, pro-American and law-abiding Sufi sect in North America had been given a chance to speak, instead of the radical imam based in Orange County , several things would surely have happened.
After the war, the group transformed itself into a lay religious organisation, adopting the name Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society), and embracing the faith of the 700-year-old Nichiren Shoshu sect.
The ICC has said Kenyatta and a co-perpetrator directed the outlawed sect to attack opposition members and rival tribes during the postelection unrest.
Paul, who welcomed uncircumcised and trayf-eating Gentiles into the sect.
Based on the island of Lanzarote, this sect offers hope in a morally bankrupt post-religious society by promising immortality.
Each party took 41 seats, most of the rest going to mild Islamists, Turkomen, Christians and Yazidis (followers of a sect that is said to descend from Roman-era worshippers of the god Mithras), nearly all with the blessing of the two big Kurdish parties.
Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad has surrounded himself primarily with members of his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Regarding the chain of command, the French intelligence assessment said the section of the Syrian military responsible for filling munitions with chemical agents and for security at storage sites - "Branch 450" of the CERS - was staffed only by members of the president's minority Alawite sect and was "distinguished by a high level of loyalty to the regime".
Although Canon's powerful EOS-1D Mark III has priced itself right out of consideration for a large sect, the niche that has been waiting in tense anticipation to see a solid review of the unit need wait no more.
It's fairly safe to say that Continental Automotive Systems isn't the only company out there conjuring up an in-car safety system to alert motorists of impending hazards, and while a certain sect (we jest, we jest) would likely ignore whatever great advice it's sure to give, we can still admire the effort here.
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The Federal Deposit Bank Insurance Corp. (FDIC) is deliberating today over the proper formulation of a rule to implement section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Act, colloquially known as the Volcker Rule, and codified as 12 USC sect 1851.
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In 18th- and early 19th-century Britain a sizable chunk of the nation's economy was run by members of the religious sect known as the Quakers.
The Glaubers were from Brooklyn, home to the largest community of ultra-Orthodox Jews outside Israel, more than 250, 000, and were members of the Satmar Hasidic sect.
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