Sentence examples for religious mandate from inspiring English sources

The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has a religious mandate to overrule the president and Parliament.

This desire to deny women entrance into the public arena is inaccurately presented as a religious mandate.

They argue that excluding or isolating women in separate rooms for prayer are practices based on cultural traditions and not religious mandate.

For Egypt's new president, the dilemma quickly became an early test of the Brotherhood's ability to balance domestic political pressures, international commitments and its conservative religious mandate now that it is also effectively governing in a new democracy.

Another ultra-conservative MP, Nasser al-Shaker – a member of a Salafi party that was then an ally of the Brotherhood – called for legalisation of FGM, and said it had a religious mandate.

They include deep cuts to the bloated government work force and vast public subsidies, a leftist re-expansion of the state's role in the economy, and the Muslim Brotherhood's plan to impose a 2.5 percent income surtax on all Muslims to fulfill their religious mandate to give to charity.

In a third case based on interpretations of religious mandates, judges in Quraiyat convicted Fawza Falih of witchcraft in April 2006 based on evidence such as substances found in her jars and the claims of a man who said he became impotent from her spell.

I am not particularly interested in the mechanics and high end religious mandates of 'serious' photography.

But unlike Jerry Falwell's version, my values system is based on the multi-religious mandate to "love your neighbor as yourself".

Nor is it clear what courts would say if an organization's religious tenets mandate differential treatment on the basis of race.

Normally, if you have trouble finding people to pray for you, it's time to ask if, maybe, there's a reason for that – like, maybe, even those whose religious beliefs mandate charity don't have any sympathy for you?