The phrase "cleric for" is not correct and is not commonly used in written English.
A more appropriate phrase would be "advocating for" or "speaking out for". For example: "She dedicated her life to advocating for the rights of marginalized communities."
Mehdi Khalaji, an analyst at the Washington Institute who trained as a cleric for fourteen years in Qom, is confident that the clerical establishment supports Khamenei, and that those who dissent are neither politically powerful nor influential within the ulema itself.
Judges have already jailed one investigative journalist, and a prominent reformist cleric, for comments they made about the murders.
The colonel later explained that he had always intended to hold the cleric for a short period.
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"Awlaki was the go-to cleric for English-speaking Muslims who sought to engage in violent jihad.
The 683 death sentences will now be referred to Egypt's Grand Mufti, a senior Muslim cleric, for his opinion.
It was widely viewed as an attempt to gradually transform the Islamic Republic from a rigid Islamic state with an omnipotent cleric-for-life into something more like an actual republic, with powers shared by an elected President under term limits.
Instead, a protest march in Islamabad led by a cleric calling for electoral reform dominated the airwaves for days.
The position of the supreme leader was once thought to belong to an esteemed cleric known for his theological erudition.
Among the recent dead are two liberal teenage activists, a prominent cleric known for his opposition to a local strongman, Khalifa Haftar, and members of the security forces.
Protests break out in Shia areas of Saudi Arabia, Indian-controlled Kashmir and Pakistan while a prominent Iraqi cleric calls for demonstrations in Gulf countries.
