clerics were sharply divided on the issue of whether the war was morally justified
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Back in 1775, the grapes grown at the Schloss Johannisberg estate in Germany’s Rheingau region could not be picked until a permit was issued by the cleric leading the abbey, known as the Prince Abbot.—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2025 The seventh prisoner, Saman Mohammadi Khiyareh, a Kurd, was convicted over the 2009 assassination of Mamousta Sheikh al-Islam, a pro-government Sunni cleric in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj.—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025 Iran will never bow to foreign pressure over its nuclear program, senior cleric Ahmad Khatami said Friday, warning that the country’s uranium enrichment is a nonnegotiable symbol of national sovereignty.—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 That exquisitely rare skill — the ability to arrange a handful of ordinary notes in a way that makes time stop and pulses quicken — unites long-anonymous troubadours, symphonists, Broadway entertainers, earnest singer-songwriters, griots, and ancient clerics.—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cleric
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