Sentence examples for high cleric from inspiring English sources

The daughter of a high cleric contends that "religious belief is mostly gone.

He is a scholar, he is a high cleric in our mosque.' And I said, 'No, not that Sayed.

Once back in Afghanistan, Mr. bin Laden issued a stream of declarations in the style of a high cleric of Islam.

Compromise for the sake of a common agenda is rare.This anarchic system just about works because at its centre sits a supreme leader (always a high cleric) who draws his authority from the revolution.

Saint Timothy, first Bishop of Ephesus and associate of Saint Paul, has been suggested but eliminated as he is not dressed as a high cleric.

The Church of England's second-highest cleric told the Henley literary festival that the countries in the Schengen area should "own up to what they have created".

Sheik Mohamed Tantawi, the grand sheik of Al Azhar and therefore Egypt's highest cleric, whose pronouncements carry the weight of religious law, issued a statement that basically endorsed revenge.

The news about the timing of the conclave comes as the Pope accepted the resignation of the Roman Catholic Church's highest cleric in Britain, Cardinal Keith O'Brien.

Having first lived in the Holy Land of Palestine, George became private secretary to Tarasius, patriarch of Constantinople (reigned 784 806), thus acquiring the title Syncellus (Greek: Cellmate), an official Byzantine position of cleric confidant to a high ecclesiastic.

The judge's request for the death sentence in connection with the jailbreak case was referred to the grand mufti, a high religious cleric, for ratification.

Of noble Saxon lineage, he was more than a high-ranking cleric.