(a.) Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy.
(a.) Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Office
Definition:
(n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices.
(n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office.
(n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.
(n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings.
(n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office.
(n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
(n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc.
(n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.
(v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(3) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(4) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(5) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
(6) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(8) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
(9) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(10) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(11) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
(12) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
(13) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
(14) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
(15) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.
(16) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(17) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(18) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(19) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(20) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.