(1) He helped her cope when her mother and then her father, who had been an Anglican cleric, died in quick succession in 1981.
(2) Turkish police have stormed the offices of an opposition media group days before the country’s pivotal election, in a crackdown on companies linked to a US-based cleric and critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
(3) "Everyone calls him the Socialist Worker Padre," one bland senior cleric told me with a sly and dismissive laugh.
(4) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(5) Even the most popular Shia cleric, Sayyed Mohammed Fadlallah , a man who has deeply affected the thinking of key Hezbollah leaders and cadres since the party's inception, now says in no uncertain terms that Shias and the country as a whole want to see, and should see, a strong Lebanese army as the nation's sole protector; and that the perpetually unstable confessional system must be ended as soon as possible.
(6) Minutes after David Cameron joined the attack on Wednesday by claiming Khan was close to a south London cleric, Suliman Gani, who “supports IS [Islamic State]”, Team Zac circulated a dossier alleging Khan’s links with convicted terrorists, homophobes, antisemites and hate preachers.
(7) The main works in the mine were classified as mining, dressing of ores, refining, and clerical work.
(8) Computerization of the instrument resulted in a decrease in staff nurses' time spent rating patients, improved accuracy of ratings, ease of auditing, improved management reports, and a decrease in clerical time.
(9) Appeal court judges say they will deliver their ruling before Easter on the latest attempt by the home secretary, Theresa May , to lift the legal block on deporting the radical Islamist cleric, Abu Qatada, back to Jordan.
(10) He was a self-proclaimed cleric, though he had no formal qualifications or any evidence to support his claims.
(11) The surge in violence comes at a time of heightened political tension as the preparations of the coalition government to step down and fight elections have been threatened by a religious cleric who plans to bring a massive protest march to the capital on Monday.
(12) "We see these new laws being adopted," said Obolensky, "and then many clerical representatives and nationalists say that LGBT people are sick and need to be healed.
(13) On the face of it, Giles Fraser is an unlikely looking cleric.
(14) Symptomatology was more frequent in female detergent workers than among the clerical staff but no difference among men in different jobs was noted.
(15) The people of Iran, the region, Israel, America and the world deserve better than a deal that consolidates the grip on power of the violent revolutionary clerics who rule Tehran with an iron fist.” Here’s what members of the Bush team have said individually about the deal, since its announcement on Monday and in the weeks that led up to the announcement: Paul Wolfowitz , deputy secretary of defense under George W Bush, on Fox News : A bad deal is much worse than nothing.
(16) The work-load of house officers could be reduced considerably by providing additional clerical and administrative support and a more widespread adoption of an extended role for nurses.
(17) Reasons for missing appointments included the patient forgot or was confused (7 cases), weather (5), transportation difficulties (5), clerical error (3), and refusal of further chemotherapy (1).
(18) His interviews with al-Qaida, won partly because of a family link through marriage to a radical cleric, had angered the US, which had depicted him as a member of al-Qaida's media arm, not as an independent reporter.
(19) When Desai and her colleagues walked out, they were not members of a union, but they soon joined the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (Apex), which, along with the wider trade union movement, gave the Grunwick women considerable support during the strike, which lasted almost two years.
(20) Some of the women priests appeared to have sourced phone cases to match the colour of their clerical robes.
Rector
Definition:
(n.) A ruler or governor.
(n.) A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.
(n.) A clergyman in charge of a parish.
(n.) The head master of a public school.
(n.) The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.
(n.) The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Sombat Thamrongthanyawong, a core PDRC leader and former rector of the National Institute of Development Association, told the Guardian: "The PDRC never use any violent means.
(2) Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod said in a statement that its vice-rector for innovation, Kendrick White, had been relieved of his duties as part of a “restructuring of the management system”.
(3) Father Philip North, who is team rector at the parish of Old St Pancras in north London, said that local reservations over his appointment — and the divisions exacerbated by last month's General Synod vote against female bishops — meant it would be impossible for him to be "a focus for unity" as bishop of Whitby.
(4) A poem to the vaccine was written by Andres Bello, the first rector of the University of Chile, then in Venezuela (1804).
(5) The rector, Kathleen Adams-Shepherd, told the congregation that she had been at the firehouse close to Sandy Hook elementary waiting and praying with families.
(6) She unveiled road signs and streets named after her husband, and was even a candidate in 1977 to be rector of Glasgow University.
(7) NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said he was humbled and honoured after Glasgow University students voted overwhelmingly for him to serve as their rector for the next three years.
(8) But Professor Massimo Egidi, an economist and rector of LUISS Guido Carli, a private university in Rome, dismissed a link between the results and Italy's 43% youth unemployment rate for under 24-year-olds.
(9) "This is a great honour and an even bigger challenge," said the author of The Choir , A Village Affair and The Rector's Wife .
(10) The Rev John Ubel, rector of the Catholic cathedral that overlooks downtown St Paul, said the day would prove to have been a good one if it brought people of different backgrounds together and gave them a “tiny measure of peace”.
(11) Formerly head, London College of Communication and Deputy Rector, University of the Arts, London.
(12) The life of Paul de Sorbait (1624-1691), who was Professor of Medicine, Dean of the Medical School, and Rector Magnificus at Vienna University, is reviewed on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of his death.
(13) Yet it was on him that Orbán’s official spokesman focused while scrambling to explain recent mass protests supporting Budapest’s Central European University (CEU) – a small elite institution of higher learning of which Ignatieff is rector, and which could, theoretically, be forced to close because of a new higher education law.
(14) Charles Kennedy, the outgoing rector and former Lib Dem leader, said: "It has been a pleasure and a privilege to serve the students of the University of Glasgow for the past six years.
(15) Most beta-emitting radionuclides are produced in nuclear rectors via neutron capture reactions; however, a few are produced in charged-particle accelerators.
(16) The social mobility "trackers" will most probably lead to the blaming of schools in poor areas, as they try to achieve those five A to Cs for disadvantaged kids; schools will learn to game the system, resulting in grade inflation; there will be an annual ding-dong with rectors from Oxford and Cambridge as it emerges that they've managed in yet another year not to find a single black person clever enough to study history.
(17) As a medical student, Burns voted for Reid – who was a SNP supporter in later life – to become rector of the University of Glasgow, and vividly recalls his rectorial address, which was printed in full in the New York Times .
(18) Rosemary Rimmer-Clay, who was a 19-year-old student at Dundee University in 1975 at a time when he was rector of the university, said that a man who she had once viewed as a hero had abused his power to prey on young girls.
(19) Soon afterwards this influence followed Twombly to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where his teachers included Robert Motherwell, although he was also inspired by the rector Charles Olson's interest in archetypal, symbolic imagery.
(20) Andrés Bello, an intellectual and humanist and the first Rector of the University of Chile, published several articles about cholera in the Araucano, a newspaper of Santiago.