Sentence examples for high clerical from inspiring English sources

The high clerical collars that caressed the necks at Alberta Ferretti's Philosophy line were just one way that the Italian designer tenderized tailoring.

By Shirley Hazzard The New Yorker, March 4 , 1967P. 40 Miss Clelia Kingslake, a Canadian with a high clerical position in the Organization United Nationss), is assigned to an emergency mission on the Isle of Rhodes.

Samuel Antek, a violinist in the orchestra, recalled how the first rehearsal began: He was dressed in a severely cut black alpaca jacket, with a high clerical collar, formal striped trousers, and pointed slipperlike shoes.

This conference by Pakistan's highest clerical office has highlighted the fact that the clerics have the ability to identify the causes of religious violence -- it is the will to apply that is entirely lacking.

As a grand ayatollah he was of a higher clerical rank than the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

"The highest clerical representative of the church is himself a victim of the system which didn't allow him to own his homosexuality".

"To Muslims, and especially to Afghans, religion is much higher a concern than civilian or human casualties," said Hafez Abdul Qayoom, a member of Afghanistan's highest clerical body, the Ulema Council.

While higher clerical positions continued to be monopolized by a group of prominent Istanbul ulema families in the mid-17th century, places in the secular bureaucracies were being apportioned largely according to political patronage.

Shiite clerical authorities had announced the date at the beginning of the week, but Sunni Muslims did not learn until after sunset on Thursday — when their highest clerical authority in Lebanon, the Dar al-Fatwa, issued an announcement — that their holiday would begin the following morning.

The web sites of the clerics, Grand Ayatollah Yusuf Sanei and Grand Ayatollah Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani, who are both "sources of emulation," the highest clerical rank in Shiite Islam, were first reported blocked by news sites linked with Iran's political opposition movement on Sunday.

The response was based on a five-item work and education questionnaire: (1) higher clerical employees; (2) self-employed; (3) lower clerical employees; (4) workers; and (5) students, pensioners, unemployed or unknown.