Sentence examples for under clerical from inspiring English sources

AFTER 21 stressful years of living under clerical dictatorship, most Iranians would happily settle for a more normal life.

Indeed, the precarious postwar balance of power between the Christian Democrats and the extreme left in Italy led him to encourage the members of Catholic Action (an activist lay movement under clerical control) to participate in parliamentary politics.

The mission attempted to secure the rescinding of the excommunication of those whom Becket had placed under clerical ban, but it was unsuccessful; rumours circulated that the mission sought and secured papal permission for the coronation of King Henry's eldest living son by someone other than Becket.

Nevertheless, if Italy taught Pius one lesson, developments in France, where the church prospered more under the liberal regime of Louis-Philippe than it had under the clerical Charles X, suggested quite the opposite conclusions to the liberal Catholics there, whose spokesman was Charles de Montalembert.

Iran's Kurds remain firmly under the clerical regime's grip.

The complainants knew that everything was about to be swept under the clerical carpet.

It's not really over for Salman Rushdie, whose new memoir recounts a decade under a clerical death sentence for the publication of his novel "The Satanic Verses".

She acknowledged that the bureau has a backlog that prevents it from getting much of the information out to the towns that they have requested, but it is a matter of clerical under staffing, not collusion.

PrimeGlobal is fond of funds run by Dublin-based subsidiaries of British insurance companies, with names like Scottish Mutual (with $45 billion under management) and Clerical Medical ($97 billion).

For the Islamic Republic, which is governed under a mixed clerical and parliamentary system, the elections are seen as key affirmation of the system's legitimacy, however flawed the process may be.

But the excesses of clerical reactionaries under the Restoration and the Second Empire rallied the middle and working classes to his memory.