Sentence examples for Leading clerics from inspiring English sources

Leading clerics were arrested, expelled and murdered.

Leading clerics—including Agobard of Lyon and even Ebbo of Reims, Louis's childhood companion demanded that Louis abdicate.

This month, he and other leading clerics led a rally in Lahore condemning the Taliban as "enemies of Islam and traitors".

Iran's leading clerics and political figures must "take back the authority which they should be exercising on behalf of the people," Mrs. Clinton said at a news conference after a nearly four-hour meeting with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at his desert camp outside the capital, Riyadh.

In a highly unusual public attack backed by other leading clerics, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani called on Iran's supreme spiritual leader to take action against Mr Ahmadinejad for "mis- statements and fabrications" during a televised debate last week.

Thousands of Shiites, including several leading clerics, were killed outright.

In 1890, unpopular concessions on tobacco and other products to the British led leading Shia clerics to call for nationalist protests and a nationwide tobacco strike, which succeeded in forcing the Shah to cancel the concession in early 1892.

Leading Iranian clerics have criticized Ahmadinejad for saying the Mahdi leads the government.

One of the lead clerics in Tuesday's gathering was a Sufi, a member of a Muslim religious order that Islamists regard as heretics.

In the summer and fall of 2003, the senior clerics had been firm in their rejection of Moqtadah al-Sadr's demands for an Islamic state led by clerics.

Violent mobs led by clerics have framed the argument, as appears to have happened in Ms. Masih's case.