secular state
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsecularandstate
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secular
adjective
uk/ˈsek.jə.lər/us/ˈsek.jə.lɚ/
not having any connection ...
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state
noun
uk/steɪt/us/steɪt/
a condition or way of being that exists at a ...
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(Definition ofsecularandstatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsecular state
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Secularists view religion as a personal matter within asecularstate.
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In this case, moreover, the only communities recognized are religious ones-a paradox indeed in a supposedlysecularstate.
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Another example: asecularstatemay refuse to validate religious marriage vows legally without necessarily seeking to invalidate them from a social perspective.
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In this sense the resurgence of religion is directly connected to the erosion ofsecularstateapparatuses in cases where the latter has occurred.
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However, the ideal of thesecularstatewas embodied in this document from the inception of the republic in 1950.
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Most importantly, these forced migrants accepted thesecularstateand the basics of democracy.
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Such appeals are also troubling from an ethical perspective for their associations of religious ideals with public health, a field rightly free in asecularstatefrom religious affiliation.
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Undoubtedly he sought to limit the right to resist in the first instance to those men who were both godly and stalwarts of thesecularstate.
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I believe that asecularstate, by virtue of its structure, is the greatest guarantee of the space required for a diversity of beliefs.
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I admit that those of its governments that made a clear commitment to thesecularstatewould also concede that.
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Would it continue to be a western-facingsecularstate?
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Many of us look to it to take the lead, not to follow thesecularstate.
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They are not people who believe in asecularstate.
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The path we choose should be to support the cause of the forces in the south and the north that are calling for asecularstateand democratic institutions.
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Proponents for a separation argue the state church violates equality of religions and the principle of thesecularstate.
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Secularstateeducation and the conscience clause were anathema to him.
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It is asecularstateand freedom of religion is a constitutional right.
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We have opted for asecularstatewhich is enjoined to observe strict neutrality among religious tendencies.
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The constitution provides for asecularstateand guarantees religious freedom; different religious communities generally co-exist without problems.
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