Sentence examples for a religious establishment from inspiring English sources

The cinema establishment, a religious establishment, or what?

A professional establishment, a religious establishment, a national establishment.

In New York, The Musical Courier called the result "cheerless" and "cold," and compared it to a "religious establishment".

Five years later, Constance, by now living in a religious establishment in Brighton, confessed to the crime.

It was to a religious establishment that he went with a gun to vent whatever rage was driving him.

If a symbol or image is determined to be religious, does that automatically mean that it violates the Constitution by promoting a religious establishment or church?

By contrast, a century ago the Episcopal Church saw itself as a leading part of something like a national religious establishment, and the church built up its national offices accordingly.

In their quest to alter laws mired in patriarchal tradition and a medieval reading of the Koran, the women face not only an entrenched religious establishment, but also a battle with fundamentalists in the political arena.

To alter them, Muslim women face not only an entrenched religious establishment, but also a battle with fundamentalists in the political arena.

But majority opinion counts for little in an absolute monarchy, in which the king rules in concert with a fundamentalist religious establishment.

King Abdullah began wielding his checkbook right after leaders in Tunisia and Egypt fell, seeking to placate the public and reward a loyal religious establishment.