Sentence examples for clerical debate from inspiring English sources

The clerical debate about soccer also reflects concern that soccer alongside minority Shiite Muslims and relatives of imprisoned government critics could emerge as a focal point of dissent in a kingdom that despite a ban on demonstrations has been struggling to fend off the waves of change sweeping the Middle East and North Africa.

Perceptions of soccer fanaticism have increasingly become a subject of clerical debate in Saudi Arabia, a country that provides few sporting opportunities for women and bans women's soccer, with religious and political leaders increasingly concerned that the sport could rival Islam, a key pillar of the Al Saud family's control in alliance with religious leaders.

The newspapers became Iran's agora -- the place for whining, for serious complaint, for venting against the greed of the clerical clique and for debating the future hues of the Islamic republic.

They touch on pastoral issues like lifting the ban on remarried Catholics taking Communion, creating a greater role for women in the Church and reopening the debate on compulsory clerical celibacy.

He rejected calls for a debate on the issue of clerical celibacy, and reaffirmed the ban on Communion for divorced Catholics who remarry.

Benedict XVI rejected calls for a debate on the issue of clerical celibacy, and reaffirmed the ban on Communion for divorced Catholics who remarry.

As recently as 2003, the authorities in Tabriz erected a statue of Baskerville, and the clerical establishment in Tehran, after a little debate, decided not to interfere in the decision.

What we need now is a psychological repeat of 1997: a shock to the clerical system that again opens Iran to serious debate.

Now they are debating whether the mistake was a trivial clerical error that should simply be ignored, or a one-time opportunity for Rushmore buyers to back out and recover their deposits or negotiate a better deal.

He called for a debate about the bill between medical and Islamic clerical experts.

All of the banned newspapers supported President Mohammad Khatami, whose calls for reform of the judiciary and for open political debate have won him broad public support, but also fierce enemies in the clerical establishment.