Sentence examples for clerical structure from inspiring English sources

In doing so, he was seeking to protect not only the one priest but also the clerical structure of power to which, even dead, that priest still belonged.

Given that Sunni (unlike Shia) Islam lacks a formal clerical structure, the Russians sometimes had to coax one into existence by boosting the authority of their favourites.

Example: the clerical structure that exists in Iran does not exist in Egypt.

The Raëlian Church has a quasi-clerical structure of seven levels.

"I'm very Virgo and structured and clerical about things, so I'm fascinated by those girls," he said.

As a result, the already-existing, clerical-based social structures in the Shiite community were among the few organizations to survive Saddam Hussein's totalitarian regime and were therefore more capable of organizing themselves politically when U.S. forces overthrew the government in Baghdad in 2003.

The clerical regime with a highly complicated government structure is known as an adversary of the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East.

Academics, when asked, will draw inconclusive flow charts of the government's structure: there are shadow institutions everywhere regular courts and clerical courts, a regular army and a revolutionary army, an elected parliament and a clerical Council of Guardians.

It is difficult to say how influential the statement by the association, made up of 27 moderate clerics, will be in Iran's complex and opaque power structure, but Ayatollah Khamenei, who has the last word on many important matters, is sensitive to clerical opinion.

Academics, when asked, will draw inconclusive flow charts of the government's structure: there are shadow institutions everywhere — regular courts and clerical courts, a regular army and a revolutionary army, an elected parliament and a clerical Council of Guardians.

Intended to return the church to its original purity and to abolish simony and clerical marriage, the movement revolutionized the church's organization, establishing the hierarchical structure headed by the pope that has come to characterize the institution.