Sentence examples for local clerics from inspiring English sources

And local clerics don't have an axe to grind, they listen and then reflect back what they hear.

On Tuesday, the country's Islamic authorities told Agence France-Presse that they were investigating the event, while local clerics expressed outrage over it.

In September, police officials destroyed 23 gravestones in an Ahmadi graveyard in Faisalabad, a Punjabi city, at the direct instigation of local clerics.

Mr. Syarif, 31, was a familiar face at often-violent protests, organized by local clerics, against alleged places of immorality, like karaoke bars and unregistered Christian churches.

Napoleon proclaimed to the Egyptians that he revered the Prophet Muhammad and "the glorious Koran," if only to win over the local clerics.

When desperate women like Khan rush to local clerics for justice, they are told that instant divorce is permitted under Islamic law.

When local cleric Mujib Rahman banned the concert, it prompted public anger about the growing power of religious clerics in the city.

In each city, they were greeted by local authorities, clerics, and throngs of worshippers.

Though nominally part of Pakistan, here the law depends on local chiefs, clerics and the Kalashnikov.

Private Dudin has taken to warning local Sunni clerics that they will have "blood responsibility" under Islamic law if they incite their followers to attack American forces.

The Viagra jokes repeated themselves, and the objects of satire became increasingly elusive -- local Catholic clerics, the mayor of Aalst as a ship figurehead, the Walloons and Germans who make up the other populations of Belgium, various Flemish politicos.