Sentence examples for as lay from inspiring English sources

Synods, consisting of all the clergy as well as lay delegates, are held every four years.

Churches were bombed, and priests as well as lay Christians were murdered.

Two brothers joined the order as lay workers and continue to work for it, although one is having second thoughts.

That Prescott's histories continue to be popular with scholars as well as lay readers after more than a century of criticism attests to their vitality and readability.

The court has appointed six members of the public to serve as lay judges at the trial following the introduction of limited trial by jury in 2009.

However, I was distressed enough by my position as lay preacher and my real belief in God to contact a support group.

But as lay people, we are presumably better placed to judge a doctor's desk-side manner - no GPs visit beds any more, do they?

But the other four members of the judicial panel -- one other judge and three citizens who deliberate with the others as lay judges -- are Kosovo Albanians.

This stresses the importance of using patients as observers, as well as lay people and clinicians, in facial attractiveness research.

Though this study included adult patients it could be assumed that parents as lay trainers could support the therapeutic processes.

The paper discusses also some negative aspects of the technology transfer process ethics where the recipient countries are treated as lay labour only.