The phrase "attacks on clerical" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing criticisms or negative actions directed towards clerical work or clerical staff.
Example: "The recent attacks on clerical staff have raised concerns about workplace safety and respect."
Alternatives: "assaults on clerical" or "criticisms of clerical".
Within days of taking office he had opened the "Reformation" Parliament, which soon established its anticlerical credentials; and, in view of the growing unlikelihood of a favourable decision from Rome over the king's marriage, royal policy shifted towards an alliance with the Commons' attack on clerical privileges.
Do your specialists waste time on clerical work?
It was the clerical attacks on heretics as much as the subversive works themselves that familiarized a narrow stratum of society with new ideas.
In its most recent annual listing of terrorist groups, the State Department said of the group that "its history is studded with anti-Western attacks as well as terrorist attacks on the interests of the clerical regime in Iran and abroad".
Catholic morality has influenced Irish social policy in the past, but Prime Minister Enda Kenny's speech attacking the Vatican last summer following another damning report on clerical sex abuse, and the subsequent shuttering of the Irish Embassy to the Holy See, marked a sea change in the relationship between church and state.
Almost the entire focus on clerical abuse scandals is on sexual attacks on young boys by old priests, despite the fact that most of the abuse detailed in the various inquiries' reports consists of beating and physical and mental torture.
Pompeo on Sunday launched a harsh attack on Iran's clerical and military rulers, calling them a kleptocracy akin to the Mafia.
His Caprichos were an attack on superstition and clerical overreach; he even left his own country rather than serve an anti-liberal king.
On May 16, the Vatican gave all bishops conferences one year to formulate national policies on clerical sex abuse of minors.
Abrams blamed these on clerical errors.
