In Najaf, the world's most venerable seat of Shiite scholarship, clerics say Ayatollah Sistani, a pivotal figure ever since the American overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, hopes to create for Iraq a model that is starkly different from the clerical rule that has governed Iran, which also has a Shiite majority.
This conflict between the state and clerics is different now than in the past because it has been exacerbated by clerical opposition to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is Khamenei's protégé.
The lawsuit was one of four that challenged the law over a clerical error that listed different rental periods for medical equipment that would be covered by Medicare.
But we cannot rely on this indicator as our method builds several clusters of different sizes; each cluster corresponding, after clerical review, to one identity.
But the President, who made billions in real estate, and the Pontiff, who eschewed the apostolic palace to live "a normal life" at a clerical guest house, have distinctly different world views.
Raeisi, who holds the clerical rank of hojjatoleslam, is a different character.
But Shiite Islam thrives on discussion in a particularly egalitarian way; it recognizes different interpretations, welcomes argument (at least among its clerical scholars) and shuns a rigid hierarchy.
But you would imagine from Robertson's portrayal that the Vatican is using its statehood to shelter clerical paedophiles wanted by the law of different countries.
One hundred three HCWs were enrolled from 15 different health centers, including 73 (71%) nurses, 13 (13%) clerical or administrative staff, 10 (10%) midwives, 5 (5%) laboratory workers, and 2 (2%) doctors.
Using a gold standard dataset of 623 record pairs matched by means of fingerprints, we evaluate twenty record linkage scenarios (involving different identifiers, string comparison techniques and with and without clerical review) based on the Fellegi-Sunter probabilistic record linkage model.
