Sentence examples for religious rank from inspiring English sources

The title "God's Wife of Amun" signified the highest political and religious rank, a sort of divinely sanctioned first lady, and statues of such women were given special treatment.

The intercepts depict a regime increasingly corrupt, alienated from the country's religious rank and file, and so weakened and frightened that it has brokered its future by channelling hundreds of millions of dollars in what amounts to protection money to fundamentalist groups that wish to overthrow it.

The training period, reuniting and travels represent the attainment of the highest religious rank in medieval Taoism called "Preceptor of the Three Caverns".

Teams drawn from the ranks of the former Iraqi opposition will be dispatched in coming days to each of Iraq's 28 provinces to invite local leaders to pick deputies from among tribal, professional and religious ranks and send them immediately to Baghdad to convene the assembly.

These are among the figures Safavid 'externalism' had tried to break from, and they remained out of favour among clerics in the twentieth century to the extent that Khomeini as a young man rising through the religious ranks was discrete over his interest.

Not even the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a stridently anti-American but unremarkable cleric plucked from the religious ranks 14 years ago to fill the shoes of his giant predecessor, Ayatollah Khomeini is fully in control.

There is a culture within certain religious ranks in ugly sects of the church that serve as a cover-up for abuse and suppression of victims.

Business owners who are not party members but have religious beliefs rank second, followed by business owners who are party members but do not have religious beliefs.

In the Grand Shrine of Ise, the supreme priestess, the saishu ("chief of the religious ceremonies"), ranks even above the supreme priest, the dai-gūji.

But that is an exception: in a nation where many like history and beauty but few are formally religious, cathedrals must rank as one of the church's success stories.But places like Southwark have little time to rest on their laurels: they are girding themselves for yet another of the Church of England's rancorous internal battles, this time over money, not sex.

Since ancient Egypt, if not long before, hats have served the practical (protection against heat and cold) and the symbolic (religious function, military rank, social status).