31.   Its leaders want to make sure that whatever regional government is ultimately formed represents every ethnic group and religious sect.

32.   More knowledgeable observers might regard it, given the context, as an anti-semitic symbol of bigotry and disrespect for a particular religious sect.

33.   Most nontraditional religious sects operate without outward problems.

34.   Officials said a letter from a jailed Utah religious sect leader may have helped persuade the Wards to leave the compound.

35.   Officials said a letter from a jailed Utah religious sect leader may have helped the Wards leave the compound.

36.   Others focused on a millennial religious sect.

37.   Oscar Hopkins is born to an English religious sect so austere that it forbids the celebration of Christmas.

38.   Religious sects have added to the turmoil by portraying the quake as the wrath of God or a prelude to doomsday, Estefan said.

39.   Ritualistic self-destruction by an esoteric religious sect is hardly original.

40.   Research, Friedrich said, indicates that Christ belonged to a Jewish religious sect known as the Essenes.