1.  The community remains divided along religious lines.

2.  Contemporary political struggles organised on religious lines clearly need social and economic explanations.

3.  But religious dividing lines ebbed and flowed here, with Catholics and Protestants sometimes trading churches as one group or another was in the ascendancy.

4.  Culturally apart, the two groups are also divided along religious lines, with the Russians avowedly secular and the Sephardim more traditionally observant.

5.  Even in mainstream ethnic Chinese areas, however, deviation from accepted religious lines spells trouble.

6.  Friendships across religious lines existed before, during, and after partition, agreed the Indians and Pakistanis.

7.  He says it could be difficult to reach a unified position on embryo research, for example, if patient advocacy groups are divided along religious lines.

8.  In Pakistan, some have expressed fears that a continuing war will tear society apart along religious lines.

9.  Instead, he draws a distinction between professing honest faith and making statements that divide people along religious lines.