Sentence examples for greater lay from inspiring English sources

Other pastors, used to almost complete control, view greater lay involvement as bureaucratic interference, church officials say.

The group, which seeks greater lay involvement in church decisions, has consistently emphasized its desire to establish a working relationship with the archdiocese.

Its members -- many of them older devout Catholics who serve as eucharistic ministers or Sunday school teachers -- have tried to call for a greater lay voice in the church without alienating the church's hierarchy.

And while we Episcopalians are certainly smaller and, dare I say, humbler than before, we have greater lay participation and more generous giving today than even in the benchmark days of the 1950s.

Everywhere the greater lay dynasties and even some bishops tried to acquire a ducal or an equivalent title that would enable them to consolidate their scattered jurisdictions and, if possible, to force lesser free lords to attend their pleas.

In experiment I cows in the strawyard system had a significantly greater lying time, ruminating time and synchronisation of lying behaviour than the cubicle system.

All the greats lay before me.

By the time I was 17, I'd decided I wanted to be a great lay.

Perhaps greater lies have been told in the past century, but they can be counted on one hand.

But further – even greater – tribulations lay ahead.

Henry's great strength lay in analysis.