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Now, however, there is a tendency to secularize all education.

"The problem in general is that we have become secularized.

In the meantime, the church had been secularized and turned into the great hall of the university.

This was only possible after secularizing the abbey in 1798.

It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.

The missions were secularized by the Mexican government in 1834.

The school was secularized after the Communist takeover in 1948.

Three of its 136 articles-3, 27 and 130-contain heavily secularizing sections.

The Mexican government secularized the mission lands in 1834 by taking them away from the church.

From the beginning, the university was a Protestant institution, but it slowly secularized.

The first of these was to secularize Mexican education.

This monastery was secularized in the time of the Reformation.

Like the world at large, the idea of the hermit was progressively secularized.

"But as the country goes on secularizing, there is less and less money available to keep the buildings going."

Secularized in the 19th century, it is now used for exhibitions.

The priory was simply secularized and the work of the hospitals continued.

The lands of the diocese had been secularized after the war against Napoleon.

Today, an extremely complex set of science has secularized universe-maintenance.

In 1793, the mission was secularized and soon abandoned.

From 1528-1604 the church was secularized by the reformers.

After the missions were secularized in 1835 they continued to live in the area.

Ataturk was carrying out an aggressive campaign to secularize his new country.

The monastery was secularized in 1848, and after the 1893-94 renovation, it housed the first high school.

Rosario was not secularized until 1828, with the order officially executed in 1831.

The abbey was secularized during the Napoleonic era, in 1797.

Iranian conservative circles saw this trend as a deliberate attempt to secularise their own state - and with good reason.

After the Partition of Poland the Austrian administration decided to secularise the convent.

John Frederick wanted to secularise the monasteries in favour of his budget, but the opposing Estates prevented that.

France's Third Republic (1871-1940) was cemented by anti-clericalism, the desire to secularise the State and social life, faithful to the French Revolution.

Gaunt declared that he would humble the pride of the English clergy and their partisans, hinting at the intent to secularise the possessions of the Church.

O'Donoghue was an opponent of attempts to secularise the culture of Catholic schools in the Diocese of Lancaster.

The big hitters have been The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, and both of these chose to secularise their fiends.

The debate over the book contributed to the campaign by T.H. Huxley and his fellow members of the X Club to secularise science by promoting scientific naturalism.

He wants Christ to be brought clearly into the picture of working matters, not for Christians in the working world to secularise their task so that Christ is absent from their thinking.