Sentence examples for clerical control from inspiring English sources
Mr. Hakim and Ayatollah Sistani have repeatedly said they do not want clerical control of government.
The students started to call for fundamental reforms, questioning the legitimacy of clerical control.
Educated men who had held positions of responsibility under the French and Italian governments resented bitterly the restoration of clerical control over all aspects of public life.
Ayatollah Montazeri angered the conservative establishment last month in a joint interview with Reuters and London's Guardian newspaper in which he denounced clerical control of the elections and called for limits on the powers of the supreme leader.
But clerical control does not absolve Iranian courts of their responsibility to provide fair, impartial and transparent justice in the trial of 13 Iranian Jews that opens May 1 in Shiraz.
He was determined to impose absolute clerical control, and he out-manoeuvred his fellow-revolutionaries.He was helped by the ferocity of revolutionary Iran, the call for blood and revenge.
Another privilege, usually referred to as the "Privilege of Wihtred", is claimed to be a grant from Wihtred to the monasteries of Kent of exemption from non-clerical control.
This gathering mandated that all clergy should explain the basic tenets of Christianity to the laity, as well as legislating on clerical dress, control of monasteries, and the behavior of the clergy.
Supporters of clerical rule won control of the city council in the municipal election last year after a turnout of just 12percentt of Tehran's eligible voters.
The change made Notre Dame the first major Roman Catholic university in the world to move from clerical to lay control, and the new charter became a blueprint for similar changes at religious institutions around the country.
The Church of Pope Francis, like that of Pius IX, is under review: Which of its positions on an all-male clergy, clerical celibacy, birth control, and homosexuality are essential, and what can, and should, be reformed?
