Sentence examples for clerical credentials from inspiring English sources
He was stripped of his clerical credentials on December 19th, even though, he said, church leaders had assured him that he had nothing to fear.
His mantle of supreme leader was passed to Ayatollah Khamenei, whose clerical credentials are surpassed by others, and whose political authority depends on his ability to narrow the gulf between factions.
Ayatollah Montazeri, who has been under house arrest in the holy Shiite Muslim city of Qom since 1997 for challenging the credentials of Iran's supreme clerical leader, stopped short of endorsing any of the candidates or factions.
"Some 15percentt of mail carriers have a four-year credential, as do one in five clerical and sales workers and 83,000 bartenders," he said.
True, the clerical hierarchy and military apparatus in Tehran do need to shore up their Islamic and populist credentials.
Meanwhile, the clerical establishment has already begun to groom former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as a potential successor to Ayatollah Khamenei, and his religious credentials are even weaker than those of the current leader.
Computers displaced clerical workers.
He opposed efforts to expand clerical jurisdictions.
