Examples of cleric in a Sentence

clerics were sharply divided on the issue of whether the war was morally justified

Recent Examples on the Web Hossein Taeb, a 59-year-old cleric and chief of intelligence for the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, seemed untouchable. — New York Times, 29 June 2022 Hossein Taeb, a 59-year-old cleric and chief of intelligence for the powerful Revolutionary Guard, seemed untouchable. — Ronen Bergman, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2022 The 73 lawmakers from powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr’s bloc submitted their resignation based on his request, to protest a persisting political deadlock eight months after general elections were held. — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022 Bishop Lavrentij Mygovich, a white-bearded cleric dressed in a long gray tunic with a wooden cross around his neck, stepped out of the police van and walked to the back of the vehicle containing the coffin. — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 20 May 2022 Bishop Lavrentij Mygovich, a white-bearded cleric dressed in a long gray tunic with a wooden cross around his neck, stepped out of the police van and walked to the back of the vehicle containing the coffin. — Isabelle Khurshudyan And Sudarsan Raghavan, Anchorage Daily News, 20 May 2022 The last time the federal government won convictions alleging seditious conspiracy was in a 1995 case involving Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman. — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022 The results pave the way for Moqtada al-Sadr -- a firebrand cleric opposed to both Iranian and US influence in Iraq -- to decide the fate of the current prime minister, Mostafa al-Kadhimi, who is backed by the United States. — Celine Alkhaldi, Aqeel Najim, CNN, 28 Dec. 2021 After the group confronted him with a request to switch signed by the majority of the congregation, a supervising priest from the Moscow patriarchy arrived with the local cleric to remove their property from the building. — New York Times, 14 July 2022 See More

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