Sentence examples for clerisy from inspiring English sources

And it may not last even in Iran.Right now Iran is divided between reformers led by the twice-elected President Muhammad Khatami and conservative mullahs who will brook no change that might weaken the power vested in the clerisy.

A strong Ṣafavid state and the presence of influential Akhbārī scholars at first managed to suppress the execution of these ideas, but the complete collapse of central authority in Iran during the 18th century accelerated the already considerable involvement of the clerisy in state and civil affairs, a trend that would continue until modern times.

The system's legitimacy is said to be predicated on divine approbation as determined by the clerisy.

The fall of three elites – an intellectual clerisy, public service professionals, and working-class leadership – paved the way for the rapid triumph of an atomistic, relativistic individualism, market logic in economics, and supine obedience in the civil service.

Johnson wrote that "a clerisy of self-appointed internet witch doctors went completely loco – or perhaps boko is the word" when footage emerged of Jeremy Clarkson using the N-word.

There are Arnoldian streams too, visible in Lilla's implied yearning for a clerisy, morally chaste, that might uphold the candle of reason amidst the dark of politics.