The secular character of the Vatican Library continues to surprise visitors.

The government last month made changes to bolster the secular character of the original 1972 constitution, although Islam was retained as the state religion.

The new statutes gave the institution a secular character and transferred the main authority to the Rector.

It also challenges the Constitution, which requires that India preserve its secular character.

The Code recognized the principles of civil liberty, equality before the law, and the secular character of the state.

It concluded that, as presently written and administered, most Sunday closing laws are of a secular rather than religious character.

The challenge to India's constitutionally mandated secular character is profound.

Dress up like your favorite character, religious or secular, and compete in a costume contest as well.

He now pledges to maintain Turkey's secular character and to play by the democratic rules that brought him to power.

In form, these are often hardly to be distinguished from public works of a secular character, which must be mentioned later.