Sentence examples for ruling religious from inspiring English sources

President Khatami, for all his populist style and yearnings, remains a loyal member of the ruling religious elite.

They include a travel ban against Iran's ruling religious leaders and government officials involved in the nuclear program, and a freeze of Iranian financial assets abroad.

Responsible for enforcing Muslim sharia law – including "beer destruction days" in which lorry-loads of alcohol are confiscated – the panel on Tuesday held the first of a planned 10 mass weddings in the emir's palace, the ancient home of the ruling religious family.

The killings have become another front in the battle between conservatives and reformers seeking to loosen the controls of the ruling religious leadership.

Both attacks targeted Shiites — the ruling religious majority in the country — at a time when IS, a radical Sunni group, is on the defensive in Iraq for the first time in over a year. .

In Iran it is possible to deny the truth of revelation and to equate the ruling religious doctrine and the rank and file of the clerical hierarchy with their mortal and highly despised enemy: ISIS.

Muslim countries, where governments see ruling on religious matters as part of their job, are keen to help.

He said he would move to expand his coalition by talking to any party that believed in Israel, not ruling out religious parties.

But in 2010, the judges did find against Turkey, ruling that religious garments were not in themselves a threat to public order.

By ruling that religious Jews performing their most ancient sacred ritual are abusing the rights of the child, a German court has just invented a new form of Blood Libel perfectly designed for the 21st century.

Despite several Supreme Court rulings, religious displays — whether of crèches, crosses, menorahs or the Ten Commandments — remain a subject of great ambiguity, civil liberties lawyers say.