Sentence examples for at clerical from inspiring English sources

The endless repetition of the reformers' message in brilliant pamphlets and at clerical synods spread agitation in Italy, Burgundy, and Lotharingia all parts of the empire.

Ms. Jolly, a mother of three, said she had spent two years working at clerical tasks in exchange for a meager welfare check and had come in expecting to be cut off without a dime.

Rutebeuf wrote verse in personal, even autobiographical mode (though the personal details are probably fictional) on a variety of subjects: his own pitiful circumstances, the quarrel between the University of Paris and the religious orders, the need to support the Crusades, his reverence for the Virgin, and his disgust at clerical corruption.

But the Rev. Robert J. Silva, president of the National Federation of Priests Councilss, a Chicago-based organization that represents about half of the nation's 45,000 priests, said he had heard much talk at clerical gatherings in recent weeks about the need to use the courts against those who accuse priests falsely.

The aforementioned attempts at clerical blackmail, though unseemly, may be blessings in disguise, however, because they show the world who these "religious leaders" really are and where they stand on the church/state divide.

When he escapes the vicarage garden or grumbles at his role as clerical curiosity, he is railing against White's desire to classify everything to his purpose.

Computers became better at math, and at some clerical abilities, but we people were still miles ahead in other areas.

Even Jacques Chirac, at least publicly, felt the need to shake a fist at these clerical fascists rather than at George Bush and the U.S. Will the EU with perhaps the muted exception of Paris firmly stand by the U.S. and against the Iranian government when showdown time comes?

Iran handed down stiff jail terms today to several leading reformists and a prominent journalist for their attendance at an "un-Islamic" conference in Germany that prosecutors charged was aimed at overthrowing clerical rule.

He had worked at a clerical job in an accounting office.

He was educated at the clerical training college in Zaria, and in 1952-3 came to Britain to attend the South Devon technical college.