Sentence examples for religious hierarchical from inspiring English sources

Religious hierarchical leaders such as the Catholic Bishop Conference, Ralph Reed, and the Billy Graham franchise found that their ability to impose their religion on other Americans has diminished and will not return.

The AltRight view of race fits into their ultra-nationalism and combines their race and religious hierarchical views into strident opposition to multiculturalism in general and immigration in particular, In this they are the heirs to the anti-Catholic anti-immigrant Know Nothings.

Yes, Sheikh al-Tayeb holds a central place in an influential hierarchical religious body.

Born into a peasant family in Vilalba, in rural Galicia, Fraga grew up in a hierarchical, religious atmosphere.

Hierarchical religious and political institutions everywhere are losing their bases, and religious and political leaders are begging, from Iran to Jerusalem to Alabama, for some "old-time religion".

Despite strong support from the Afghan public, the initiative has met with considerable criticism, both from political figures who were excluded and from observers who warn that the huge contingent — which has no leader — could produce a profusion of opinions rather than a unified position needed to confront the demands of a hierarchical religious militia.

Even if the focus is more on Viennese high-life than low-life, in the first half Rourke plausibly creates a hierarchical, religious world; one notices the detail by which Angelo is given temporary charge of the city in preference to his senior colleague, Escalus.

The ministerial exception arose from cases that protected hierarchical religious organizations (i.e. organizations with an "ecclesiastical head") from government intrusion into matters regarding their employment of clergy.

By the 2nd century AD, Daoists formed large hierarchical religious societies such as the Way of the Five Pecks of Rice.

Is it even possible to transition from hierarchical religious authoritarianism to a modernized and even secularized form of Islamic democracy -- one that accepts the separation of church and state?

"The degree of structure … varies, as the sector includes both defined religious communities with hierarchical leadership structures as well as decentralized 'movements' of individuals with shared principles and interests".