Sentence examples for Multiple clerics from inspiring English sources
"We've gone from a system in which one cleric, the bishop, made the decision to a system in which multiple clerics will make the decision, which further minimizes the already very limited role of laypeople," said David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
They carried with them a 43-page document, created by a group of Danish Muslim clerics from multiple organisations.
On the most important issues facing the country, consensus must be reached across multiple constituencies within the elite, from moderate clerics like Mehdi Karroubi, the former reformist speaker of Parliament, to the more hard-line Guardian Council.
In 2012 one of Uzbekistan's most prominent Islamic clerics in exile, Obidkhon Qori Nazarov, was shot multiple times in the stairway of his apartment building in the Swedish village Strömsund.
The province has multiple political parties, dozens of tribal leaders and far too many clerics with political ambitions, some supported by Iran, other allied with the extremely dangerous militias of Moktada al-Sadr, the firebrand Shiite cleric.
Scandals in multiple countries over the past year have highlighted the church's struggle to deal with both abusive clerics and higher-ups who failed to stop them.
Manji, a devout but controversially reformist Muslim, is the author of The Trouble With Islam Today; she also does things like post an imam's defense of interfaith marriage on her Web site in multiple languages, so that forlorn Romeos and Juliets may show it, as she says, to "conservative parents and bigoted clerics".
Others, including many clerics, disagree.
There are three Christian clerics.
