Sentence examples for attacks on clergymen from inspiring English sources

His attacks on clergymen, particularly those of the Catholic Church, from the late 1920s were strong enough to attract a ban on his broadcasts by the NBC radio network, which condemned his "rabid attack upon organized religion and the clergy".

The plays often contained satirical attacks on greedy clergymen, doctors, lawyers, Jews, robber knights, and other traditional targets of the German burghers, an element that relates them, though distantly, to the Feast of Fools (a medieval festival during which ecclesiastical ritual was parodied) and the French sotie.

As a newspaper columnist, he specialized in critical attacks on amateur poets, clergymen, bores, dishonest politicians, money grabbers, pretenders, and frauds of all sorts.

One of those was to lift the ban on clergymen in civil partnerships becoming bishops.

He maintained strong friendships with segregationist clergymen and politicians, and his attacks on racism were always tempered by deliberate hedges and straddles — denunciations of extremists on "both sides" of the debate, suggestions that race relations were worse in the North than in the South, and so forth.

There's another wonderful attack on an idiot clergyman, and some electrifying moments of Starkadder vileness.

DAKAR, Senegal — Armed robbers killed at least 12 people and possibly more in attacks on a bank and police station in northeastern Nigeria on Thursday, according to a government official, a local clergyman and news reports.

Horrific attacks on protesters".

"Personal attacks on me?

Attacks on civilians must stop.

The attacks on civilians continued.