Sentence examples for is clerics from inspiring English sources

Mexico, for instance, has long emphasized separation between church and state and recognizes only civil marriage — that is, clerics can officiate at weddings, but are not empowered to legally marry couples.

Among them are clerics and both male and female nobles.

Many reformers, like President Khatami, are clerics themselves.

For 300 years the Mahallatis have been clerics.

Many of the members are clerics, and about 40percentt come from outside Baghdad, Mr. Qaisi said.

Others are clerics with loyalties to different factions of Shiite theologians in Iraq and Iran.

They were clerics who offered their service in good faith and absolute integrity.

Among non-Catholic religious leaders attending were clerics from the Episcopal, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist traditions.

Six of the 12 men on the Council of Guardians are clerics, and their hand in the political process has, particularly this week, been demonstrably heavy.

Saudi Arabia's justice system is based on Sharia Islamic law and its judges are clerics from the kingdom's ultra conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam.

Its original members were clerics and university faculty, and it was quick to disseminate its message via telephone facsimile and, later, the Internet.