Sentence examples for clerical control over from inspiring English sources

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.

A conservative reaction to the 1848 revolutions, it provided complete freedom from civil interference for the church, clerical control over education policy, and exceptional consideration for Catholic interests in all matters pertaining to religion.

Western freedom means the end of women's mastery by men, and the end of dictatorial clerical control over all aspects of sexuality in dress, behavior, education, the arts.

And it doesn't help to argue that giving the ultra-Orthodox rabbinate total control over Jewish practice will destroy religious life in Israel just as surely as clerical control hurt the Church of England and the Catholic Church in Spain and France.

The students started to call for fundamental reforms, questioning the legitimacy of clerical control.

Mr. Hakim and Ayatollah Sistani have repeatedly said they do not want clerical control of government.

The movements they supported were strongly nationalistic, emphasized centralized state control (as opposed to clerical control), and were strongly allied with corporate interests.

China has also maintained tight political control over clerical appointments.

In the empire, as elsewhere, the trend in ecclesiastical politics was toward state churches (Landeskirchen), in which governments, using "reform" as a pretext, gradually gained, while church authorities lost, a large measure of control over clerical properties, personnel, and functions.

However, as more capable men began to fill the clerical ranks, resentment of government control over the Church increased.

Today, even as the Revolutionary Guard--the Praetorian Guard founded by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 to defend the clerical regime--is asserting its control over the streets of Tehran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei's impatience in handling the election may ultimately cost the regime its legitimacy.