Sentence examples for Clerical from inspiring English sources
The word "Clerical" is correct in written English
It is typically used to describe tasks or jobs related to office work, administration, or paperwork. Example: "She was hired for a clerical position to manage the office's filing system."
noun
A member of the clergy.
Clerical workers at the TUC were poorly paid; the lowest-paid clerical workers at the TUC were female.
The MoD said the meeting at the Mandarin Oriental hotel took place during Fox's annual leave and was not included in the original list released last week due to a "clerical error".
Because despite protestations from the Irish church and Rome that they had changed, that new guidelines on child protection were being adhered to, the clerical authorities were still behaving as if it was the old days when they dealt with this sort of things behind closed doors, away from the rigours of the laws everyone has to abide by.
He was promoted to a clerical job in the union's education department, arranging courses for London busmen.
He was also active in collecting funds to support the mujahideen who were encouraged to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s – Osama bin Laden was the most famous of them – and he worked closely with the Wahhabi clerical establishment.
A number of other former victims of clerical sex abuse such as Colm O'Gorman, now an author and prominent figure in Amnesty International Ireland, demanded that Brady resign in 2009 when the story about his role in the Smyth affair broke.
As this idea gained ground, so did the clerical habit of designating a married woman by her husband's surname.
That honour, instead, went to John Wycliffe, a 14th-century theologian, scholar and clerical troublemaker who translated the Bible into English in the 1380s, and argued for much of his life against the power and wealth of the pope – a somewhat edgy pastime that led to his bones being dug up and burned after his death, before being chucked into a river in Leicestershire.
The Vatican has hit out at what it calls an "anti-clerical, leftwing" campaign against Pope Francis, strongly rejecting accusations concerning his actions during Argentina's brutal military dictatorship.
The Vatican, for its part, said the accusations came from "anti-clerical, leftwing elements that are used to attacking the church".
They were summarily rejected.Deep Springs is one of only four remaining (non-clerical) all-male colleges in America.
