Sentence examples for under clerical control from inspiring English sources
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.
Educated men who had held positions of responsibility under the French and Italian governments resented bitterly the restoration of clerical control over all aspects of public life.
The students started to call for fundamental reforms, questioning the legitimacy of clerical control.
Mr. Hakim and Ayatollah Sistani have repeatedly said they do not want clerical control of government.
The movements they supported were strongly nationalistic, emphasized centralized state control (as opposed to clerical control), and were strongly allied with corporate interests.
AFTER 21 stressful years of living under clerical dictatorship, most Iranians would happily settle for a more normal life.
Within a few years, Mr. Ataturk had given women the vote, closed the religious schools and courts, placed organized Islam under state control and banned all clerical dress outside places of worship.
A Sadr aide, Ali Sumeisim, who took part in the talks, told reporters that Dr. Rubaie had backtracked on an outline accord that would have had both sides pull back from the Old City, leaving the shrine under the control of the aging ayatollahs who form Iraq's Shiite clerical hierarchy.
On 15 May 1532, a depleted Convocation enacted the Submission by which the clerical estate surrendered their independent power to legislate, effectively bringing spiritual jurisdiction under secular control.
His neighborhood is under the control of a Shiite militia claiming allegiance to Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical scion of a powerful clerical family, who has emerged as perhaps the most important political figure in Iraq.
