Bishops, archbishops and abbots composed the high clergy.

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The clergy resisted at first, but capitulated when faced with the threat of Parliamentary reprisal.

Sitnikov was the tutor to whom Serezha's secular education was entrusted.

Some nations, such as Indonesia and Azerbaijan, began as secular.

The Buddhist clergy was seen, not without reason, as hidebound and oppressive.

The US is not a secular society it is a religiously pluralistic one with secular legal and political structures.

...Do you think that all the prophets and clergy who had sexual relations with their relatives were immoral?

The clerical elite has gradually lost power to the military security groups, from whose ranks President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emerged.

He went on to conjecture that Muslim clerics take advantage of this traditional submissiveness of Muslim women to oppress them.

Which economic policies statist, liberal, or some combination of the two will best ensure social justice and broad distribution of prosperity?

Will Egypt gravitate toward Islamic theocracy or adopt a secular government that respects minority rights?

It's not a big meeting, it's not a Royal Ascot it's a mundane Friday night with 20,000 people.

The priesthood is divided into an Aaronic priesthood for young men 12 and up and a Melchizedek priesthood for men 18 and up.

When asked if, despite his secular American background, he considers himself a reformist, Majd had this to say

Meanwhile, Iran s citizens including clergy in the holy city of Qom, near the Fordow nuclear facility are deeply concerned about the consequences of an attack.

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This can, but does not necessarily have to mean that the clergy will oversee legislation, which would result in the de facto incapacitation of the judiciary.

The women s movement in Morocco which now bridges secular and religious communities is setting an example of the power of social thought in a traditional society.

Although Croatia is a secular state, the Catholic Church in Croatia still has extreme influence in creating laws and opinions.

Many senior Americans were puzzled that Turkey, a long standing NATO ally and a secular state, refused to allow American forces to use Turkey as a base to invade Iraq. If relatively secular Turkish society could be swept by a surge of anti American sentiment, so, too, can Indonesia society.

If relatively secular Turkish society could be swept by a surge of anti American sentiment, so, too, can Indonesia society.

If one cause of the repression of the Ecumenical Patriarchate is nationalism, though, the other one is the other pillar of the Kemalist ideology secularism.

Although sentiment favoring a secular state is considerable, a coalition that can serve as an alternative or counterweight to the Muslim Brotherhood will be difficult to assemble.

In late December, Islamic clerics in this predominantly Muslims country called for the ban on the New Year's celebrations and urged the country's people to ignore the holiday.

Aside from Hezbollah, March 8 includes the more secular Shiite Amal movement and the Free Patriotic Movement, a large Christian group led by General Michel Aoun.

Pakistan s homegrown terrorist groups know that the country is at a tipping point, and are attacking candidates and voters who favor a secular state.

As the journalistic priesthood erodes and everyone can become a citizen reporter or commentator, regulating or training all would be journalists is not the answer.

At the same time, an anti clerical, secular movement on behalf of constitutionalism appeared in Iran a reaction to the absolutist alliance between the Quajar Shahs and the religious establishment.

Eight months ago, Tol3et Re7atkom (You Stink), a secular movement which has been demanding a sustainable solution to Lebanon's waste disposal problem , started protests that were attended by thousands of people across the country.

Sanctions may, however, persuade some other powerful constituencies within Iran, namely the clerics, the businessmen of the bazaar, and political conservatives, to turn on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Revolutionary Guard base.

The secular state, supported by feminist groups and some transnational non governmental organizations, banned female genital mutilation in 1999, without triggering massive Muslim protests.

Sunni clerics in Syria and throughout the Arab world are issuing fatwas to give the Free Syria Army the halo of holy warriors fighting the Alawite infidels who have denied Syria its true Sunni identity.

Similar warnings have been repeated over and over by oppressive rulers in the Middle East, not least by Egypt s Hosni Mubarak either the secular police state or the Islamists either Mubarak or the Muslim Brotherhood.

Stop in the corner!' she said turning to Masha, who noticing a scarcely perceptible smile on her mother's face was turning round. 'The world would say he has behaved as all young men behave.