Sentence examples for major superior from inspiring English sources

Lectors and acolytes are instituted by a bishop or by the major superior of a clerical religious institute.

The patient was diagnosed to have left major superior temporal branch retinal vein occlusion complicated by macula oedema.

We also defined an elliptical mask for the disc region temporal to the major superior and inferior branch arteries and veins.

By excluding the major superior and inferior branches of the retinal vessels on the temporal side, we focused our quantifications mainly on ONH microvascular beds.

This is not only because they are needed to confer the phenotype in the absence of the superior allele, but also because their effect is often suppressed by a major superior allele through epistasis.

Individuals with a score of greater than 20 were excluded from the study n/a, not applicable Figure  1 presents the retinal haemodynamic measurements in 27 diabetic and 26 control participants in whom the measurements could be performed at the major superior temporal artery.

The Conference of Major Superiors of Men, an umbrella organization of the religious orders, began its four-day meeting on Wednesday.

Two Catholic leaders also signed, one with the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, an umbrella group of men's religious orders.

T. Michael McNulty Washington, Feb. 27, 2010 The writer, a Jesuit priest, is justice and peace director of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men.

"It means that anyone who wants to appeal is going to have a damn easy trial in Rome," said the Rev. Canice Connors, a Franciscan friar who is president of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men.

That policy applies to the 30,000 priests who work under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States' 194 diocesan bishops, but not to the 15,000 priests who belong to religious orders, which are headed not by bishops but by major superiors.