Sentence examples for secular administration from inspiring English sources

He hoped to establish a national German church, but in 1805 the pope restricted him to the secular administration of his dioceses.

It was hardly the move of a fiercely secular administration.

As in his secular administration, despotism appeared also in the Emperor's ecclesiastical policy.

From then on, spiritual and secular administration were to be strictly separated.

After the conquest, the colonial administration of Petén was divided between the ecclesiastical authorities in Yucatán and secular administration as part of the Captaincy General of Guatemala.

Next we brought down the Taliban in Afghanistan, settling for a corrupt secular administration in place of a repressive religious order.

Obama administration officials would like to see a moderate and secular government emerge from the ashes of the Egyptian crisis.

But after a disastrous run at ruling Tunisia, the Islamists later ceded power and agreed to work in cooperation with a secular-minded administration.  .

The president has interpreted the current situation in Iran as a conflict between Islamic theocracy and the kind of Western secular democracy his administration envisions for Iraq.

The chief's primary duties were formerly religious and military, but in modern times the position has become increasingly secular, involving economic administration and the provision of social and welfare services.

Which will the new administration propose: secular vouchers with accountability, as in Houston, or unrestricted vouchers without accountability, as in the election platform?