Sentence examples for more clerics from inspiring English sources

More clerics may join in endorsing the protestors; or, at least, they might refrain from endorsing Ahmedinejad.

Aldosari said that many more clerics came out after the 26 October 2013 movement, where Saudi women pushed for the right to drive.

The holy city of Qom, with its 45,000 or more clerics and 35,000 seminarists, has ten grand ayatollahs (Objects of Emulation), each of whom has a personal following of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, both inside and outside the country.

More conservative clerics might also go their own way.

It includes dialogues with — or even suppression of — the more extremist clerics.

The more radical clerics say they support elections but insist that Iraq's new democracy be supervised by the Hawza.

He is understood to be arguing in favour of replacing Khamenei with a leadership council of three or more senior clerics.

More "progressive" clerics now regard the Mossadegh government approvingly, but they didn't do so for most of the past 20 revolutionary years.

More conservative clerics resisted, and in 1992 Mr. Khatami resigned, writing that he would rather "fight ignorance and backwardness" on his own.

But despite the reformist impulses of the popular President Khatami, the more conservative clerics continue to suppress dissent, most recently with crackdowns on the freedom of the press.

The power struggle in Iran is no longer just between the Revolutionary Guards, with their vast business network and illegal ports that they use to break the sanctions and enrich themselves, and the more pragmatic clerics.