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  • As I mentioned earlier this seemingly sectionalist society is inevitably injurious.

    Obama speech in Cairo tops Religion Newswriters' list of top religion stories | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • As I mentioned earlier this seemingly sectionalist society is inevitably injurious.

    Obama speech in Cairo tops Religion Newswriters' list of top religion stories | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • The sectionalist bitterness I've seen often enough most recently on that Literary Rejections On Display blog, and it has always perplexed me, since there's been a large regional writing movement with its own array of journals, schools, leading lights, etc. for decades, and the Big Deal MFA program in this country is right there in that aforementioned brown stuff.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

  • And permission of the U.S. flag and not other flags is indeed viewpoint discrimination: It allows the expression of a patriotic, nationalist, and inclusive-of-all-Americans viewpoint, but not a rebellious, sectionalist, or in the view of some racially exclusionary viewpoint — or for that matter of other viewpoints represented by otherflags.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » 2004 » May 2004

  • And permission of the U.S. flag and not other flags is indeed viewpoint discrimination: It allows the expression of a patriotic, nationalist, and inclusive-of-all-Americans viewpoint, but not a rebellious, sectionalist, or in the view of some racially exclusionary viewpoint — or for that matter of other viewpoints represented by otherflags.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Freedom of speech and right to bear arms in Indiana campgrounds: 2004

  • It is to our credit that the quality of our leaders was such that they deferred to other sectors of leadership of the movement as a whole rather than pursuit sectarian or sectionalist interests.

    THE ORIGINS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT (UDF) 2003

  • It is to our credit that the quality of our leaders was such that they deferred to other sectors of leadership of the movement as a whole rather than pursuit sectarian or sectionalist interests.

    Contents: 2003

  • Mofolo as they had abused their positions to push personal as well as misleading, unconstitutional and sectionalist agendas.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • No clearer picture is needed of the trend of the South in ante-bellum years than the spectacle of Calhoun transformed from nationalist to sectionalist. 63

    The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 1921

  • Eaton controversy, 132-134. against Van Buren, 134. sectionalist, 139. at Hayne-Webster debate, 149. change in political ideas, 159.

    The Reign of Andrew Jackson Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

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