religious strife

collocation in English

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religious
adjective
us
//uk
/rɪˈlɪdʒ.əs/
relating ...
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strife
noun[U]
uk
/straɪf/us
/straɪf/
violent or ...
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(Definition ofreligiousandstrifefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofreligious strife

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The author thereby presents us with a startling picture ofreligiousstrife.
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Arguably from 1552 onwards none of the proposed remedies succeed in solving the constitutional conflict, which in turn was overshadowed by thereligiousstrife.
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In a world where families were torn apart by war, exile andreligiousstrifemen and women often started new relationships abroad without having properly divorced their partners back home.
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In this respect, in ending thereligiousstrife, the treaty has been completely successful.
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He said that it afforded an opportunity of bringing to an end thisreligiousstrife.
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Both were attacks designed to fomentreligiousstrife.
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They contain poverty-stricken areas and are beset with ethnic andreligiousstrife.
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It is not we who made the bitterness ofreligiousstrife.
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Ifreligiousstrifecomes, not only religion but social reform will be hampered.
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If he did, he would exacerbate a bitterreligiousstrife.
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I want with all my strength to prevent the recurrence ofreligiousstrife.
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So we always have to remember in looking at the elements on which we are working the grave potentialities for thisreligiousstrife.
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There is no doubt that prior to that date, especially in the early part of the century, there was considerablereligiousstrife, bitterness and difficulty in the matter of education.
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Police charged the resident with distributing extremist literature and encouragingreligiousstrife.
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However, during the period ofreligiousstrifeduring the 16th century, the merchants and cloth makers withdrew to safer locations.
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Not only were nations divided one from another by their religious orientation, but some states were torn apart internally byreligiousstrife, avidly fostered by their external enemies.
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Swift does not clearly distinguish between these different kinds ofreligiousstrife.
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Fimbria ruled the entire continent until it lost its empire in a civil war brought on byreligiousstrifesome four centuries earlier.
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