Sentence examples for clerical elite from inspiring English sources
Yet many guardsmen and their children, like the children of the clerical elite, are graduates of Iran's best universities.
This class includes not only the traditional clerical elite, but also opponents of absolute clerical rule.
In retrospect, many Iranians now read such predictions as a wink from the clerical elite.
Even some members of the clerical elite seemed to question the thuggery.
Although millenarian thought lost favour with the clerical elite, it remained popular and appealed to Montanists and other heretics.
Rafsanjani is rumoured to have been in Qom, Iran's holiest city, to persuade the clerical elite to oppose Ahmadinejad.
Competing Visions of "Vision 2030": Clerics' Tools, Reformists' Tactics The arena of contest between reformists and clerical elites is itself convulsing amid tumult in the region and seismic shifts in Saudi governance.
Savonarola, a local boy, was a 15th-century preacher of fire and brimstone, making his name denouncing secular vanity, pagan idols and the corruption of clerical elites.
Clerical elites remain considerably stronger than any rival social force.
The arena of contest between reformists and clerical elites is itself convulsing amid tumult in the region and seismic shifts in Saudi governance.
The end of isolation would strengthen liberals and weaken the hold of the clerical and military elite.
