Sentence examples for clerical figures from inspiring English sources
"Rather, they are consummate insiders, long-time Islamic Republic leaders, and high-level clerical figures".
With more senior clerical figures coming out in support of Mr Mousavi, the ruling elite is looking increasingly divided between the clerics and the military.
As with the clerical figures in his studio, the rappers sport their typical vestments: jeans, Louis Vuitton backpacks, flashy watches and diamond-encrusted medallions and crosses.
Although the top clerical figures in the Iranian government will resist the temptation of engaging a superpower, knowing well the risks involved, Washington's threatening words give them an immediate reason to intensify their anti-American diatribe, which indirectly is aimed at Mr. Khatami as well.
And just last week, one of Yemen's top Sunni clerical figures, Sheikh Abdul Majid al-Zandani, placed blame for the burgeoning civil war squarely upon the Islamic Republic.
One, Tehran could deploy its diplomats and prominent Shia clerical figures to assist -- alongside UN monitors and Saudi officials -- in the mediation of an immediate armistice between Sana'a and the Houthis.
In the various versions of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism etc there has been no one clerical figure vested with the kind of power and authority that the pope excersised over domains now assumed within the modern state.
Former Mayor Edward I. Koch, who wrote a book with Cardinal O'Connor called "Hizzoner and His Eminence," called Cardinal O'Connor "an extraordinary man who was perceived by everyone as the number one clerical figure in the city, irrespective of faith".
The region's clerical establishment figures are no strangers to seemingly strange fatwas, or edicts.
Since the Ottoman collapse, Sunni Islam has lacked an internationally recognised clerical hierarchy and senior figures generally hold authority within a single country.
These exposures have centered on evidence that officially-sanctioned death squads have been at work for years, and implications that powerful figures in the clerical hierarchy may have known -- or even approved the killings -- in advance.
