Sentence examples for single cleric from inspiring English sources

"This plan will also fail," he said, "since younger people can no longer be influenced by a single cleric".

One result is that Iran's conservative clerics have signally failed to export their brand of revolution beyond a few nominal allies, such as Hizbullah.Top theologians, even inside Iran, prefer aloofness from worldly affairs to the late Ayatollah Khomeini's doctrine of placing worldly power in the hands of a single senior cleric.

The single most powerful cleric in Iraq remains Ayatollah Sistani, a 73-year-old Iranian who moved to Najaf in his early 20's.

Even before he became prime minister, David Cameron singled out the cleric for attention, saying in January 2010 that he needed close investigation as his comments came "extremely close to the line of encouraging hatred, extremism and violence".

In spite of this symbolic authority, actual authority is does not belong to any particular individual or cleric.

Why single out Muslims, a cleric from a mosque in West Philadelphia objected.

The 74 year-old cleric is the single most powerful figure in the regime but despite his title, does not wield absolute power.

In 1598, the cleric and author Francis Meres singled him out from a group of English writers as "the most excellent" in both comedy and tragedy.

We don't see a single cop, let alone a lawyer or a cleric, yet by their very absence we sense their clamp on society: a clever move by Farhadi, who shows nothing that could vex Iranian censors but whose intent is nonetheless caustic and precise.

She added that execution of 47 prisoners – including the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr – on a single day was "appalling" and a sign that the bloodshed in 2016 "could be even worse".

He singled out Youssef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian Sunni Muslim cleric who is based in Qatar.