(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.
Ulema
Definition:
(n.) A college or corporation in Turkey composed of the hierarchy, namely, the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The points agreed at a regular meeting of the Ulema Council of top clerics are not legally binding.
(2) I have spoken with several members of our Ulema council and they have said there is no problem with it, because it is a health issue."
(3) He offered an austere Islam cleansed of what he believed to be innovations, which eschewed centuries of mainstream scholarship and commentary, and rejected the authority of the traditional ulema, or religious authorities.
(4) Tahir Ashrafi, the head of the Ulema Council, Pakistan’s biggest council of Muslim clerics, said Trump’s comments promoted violence.
(5) Another major religious party, a faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam led by Maulana Fazlur Rehman, also sparked anger in the wake of the killing of Mehsud by claiming anyone, "even a dog", who is killed by the US should be considered a martyr.
(6) "One of the reasons, the most significant, is that we convened a meeting of more than 3,000 ulema [(Islamic scholars] … these, after they endorsed us, carried out a mosque-to-mosque campaign, issued fatwas and [held] Friday prayers where they asked the women to participate," the former World Bank official told journalists at a news conference in Kabul.
(7) "It's probably not an extreme position for the Ulema Council, but it's an extreme position for Karzai, and not compatible with the constitution, or Afghanistan's obligations under international law."
(8) The grand Ulema commission, an influential grouping of religious scholars, will be reconfigured and opened to moderate clerics, breaking the grip of the ultra-conservatives.
(9) Two leading Islamist parties, the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam faction led by Fazal-ur-Rehman, abstained from voting on the bill, which will be debated by the senate on Wednesday.
(10) One of the people who died was Maulawi Ekmattulah, the head of the local ulema shura [the provincial religious council]," Ayoubi said.
(11) But now is not the time to point fingers but to focus on how we can deal with this quickly.” As the Indonesian Council of Ulema has held mass prayers for rain, the administration of President Joko Widodo has deployed 30 aircraft and 22,000 troops to fight the fires on the ground, as well as stationed several warships off Kalimantan, on standby to evacuate victims if required.