Sentence examples for clerical group from inspiring English sources

On Saturday, Ayatollah Reza Ostadi, a senior member of a conservative clerical group, delivered a stinging criticism of a cleric who had organized a rally supporting Mr. Ahmadinejad, the Mehr news agency reported.

Deepening splits among Iran's clergy came to the surface today, with a senior clerical group calling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election "illegitimate".

Ms. Morgan-Thomas, who belongs to a clerical group aimed at reducing violence, called the meeting helpful, and said she welcomed the energy the newcomers had brought to the community.

The Association of Muslim Scholars, a Sunni clerical group that has condoned attacks against the American military, issued a statement in which it condemned sectarianism and urged Iraqis to avoid harming other Iraqis.

Pell, who supported the paedophile priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale during his first court appearance for child sex offences in 1993, has always denied knowing of any child abuse occurring in Ballarat while he worked there as a priest and with a clerical group called the College of Consultors during the 1970s and 80s.

Two of the three opposition candidates and a clerical group issued fresh statements requesting an annulment of the election on Friday, which gave a lopsided victory to the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a conservative who has become a polarizing figure at home and abroad.

Ahmad Janati, a powerful Iranian cleric and a close confident of Khamenei, warned last month that certain political factions in Iran were already planning for greater influence in the next assembly of experts, implying that clerical groups critical of the establishment were hoping to enter the body.

The two largest Islamic clerical groups (the All Pakistan Ulema Council and the Council of Islamic Ideology) declared a fatwa endorsing the offensive, calling it a jihad against terrorism.

One such man is Hussein Fadaee, a veteran of the war with Iraq in the 1980's, who is supported by the major pro-clerical group, the Developers of Islamic Iran.

His first years as a Lutheran pastor in the 1960s saw him as a preacher in a black Brooklyn parish so poor it could not pay him; a marcher for civil rights in Selma, Alabama, arms linked with Martin Luther King; a delegate for Eugene McCarthy in Chicago, banged up with Norman Mailer for defying the police; and a co-founder of a clerical pressure group against the Vietnam war.

Imam told Al Hayat that his agreement was conditional upon meeting the Islamic scholars who Zawahiri insisted were in the group; clerical authority was essential to validate the drastic deeds these men were contemplating.