Sentence examples for lay opposition from inspiring English sources

He wants to gain time, divide the religious from the lay opposition, and go back to his old system, which is essentially military rule".

Most important of all, Sharif-Emami entered into consultations with religious leaders, including Ayatollah Shariatmadari, and with the lay opposition, including Karim Sanjabi, the head of the National Front, for a broad understanding about new elections.

I pointed out that the leader of the lay opposition, Karim Sanjabi, was due to go to Paris to see the most intransigent of the religious leaders, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

He deposed three of them, and four Germans held the Holy See at his command; but lay opposition to the emperor in Germany and criticism of his control over the church were on the increase during the last years of his reign.

This melancholy realism lies in opposition to the irritating, admirable romanticism of the people who bicker, on social media, in the direction of perfect social enlightenment.

The difficulty lies where opposition to or criticism of official Israeli policies becomes entangled with its citizens, or Jews around the world.

Lyrically, the song finds Carey encouraging others that no matter what may lie in opposition, one must find one's inner strength and make it "through the rain".

He said gunfire came from the opposition camp, not from riot police, and that responsibility for the high number of deaths lay with the opposition.

Behind this opposition lay a kind of narrative: first you had barbarism, then civilisation was dredged out of its murky depths.

This week, the State Department invited foreign ambassadors in for briefings to lay out American opposition to the court and to warn them of the prohibition against military aid to countries that are a party to the treaty establishing the court.

He denied that responsibility for the failure to reach consensus also lay with the opposition bloc: "What we have certainly done is offered alternatives and a way out which the government has refused to accept," he insisted.