The urban environment is an integral part of its semi-secular framework.

New York's version has become a semi-secular feast.

Secular music also was aided by the formation of literature during the reign of Charlemagne that included a collection of secular and semi-secular songs.

Like many modern-day semi-secular types, I have been drawn to Buddhism in a superficial, consumer-oriented way (candles, beginner’s yoga, wisdom-dispensing calendars).

Since then, the Peoples Party has been a leading proponent of democratic socialism with mainstream agenda of social democracy, favouring the semi-secular and semi-Islamic socialist principles.

People celebrate festivals and fairs annually in Chak Sahbu which have taken a semi-secular meaning and are regarded as cultural festivals by people of all religions.

It is not just authoritarian regimes like that of Assad and Gaddafi which sees Qatar as the proponent of theocratic states, but also moderate, semi-secular opposition groups.

Its aim was a semi-secular modernization and educational reform, and within Jadid for the first time sprout the idea of a national, and not religious identity of the Turks.

However, Pakistan is still an semi-secular state and Islamists and Islamic democratic parties in Pakistan are relatively less influential than democratic Islamists of other Muslim democracies.

The latest figure to face such an accusation is an Egyptian scholar, Sayed al-Qimani, whose profile has risen since he agreed to accept a prize from his country’s semi-secular cultural authorities (see article).

The long-standing Roman Catholic tradition of not eating meat on Fridays, especially during Lent, and of substituting fish for meat on that day continues to influence habits even in predominantly Protestant, Anglican, semi-secular and secular societies.

Iran's Islamic republic is in contrast to the semi-secular state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, where Islamic laws are technically considered to override laws of the state, though in reality their relative hierarchy is ambiguous.

Lully's motets also continued the Renaissance tradition of semi-secular Latin motets in works such as Plaude Laetare Gallia, written to celebrate the baptism of King Louis XIV's son; its text by Pierre Perrin begins:

QUESTION: But you don't see this as potentially very dangerous for the region, every time you have a secular or semi-secular leader, would be a magnet for terrorists to start some sort of a fight in there or a civil war?

Rabbani had hoped that his scholarly knowledge of Islam and his track record of defending the faith against the Russians and then the semi-secular left-wing regimes of Babrak Karmal and Najibullah would open up a degree of common ground with the Talibs.

During the Middle Ages, secular or semi-secular sequences, such as Peter of Blois' Olim sudor Herculis ("The labours of Hercules") were written; the Goliards, a group of Latin poets who wrote mostly satirical verse, used the form extensively.