Sentences with 'clerics'
Example sentences and phrases with the word clerics and other words derived from it.
• « By the 1520s most Lutherans were reform clerics, who saw Luther's movement as an effective and radical protest against all the problems that had plagued the church for centuries. »
• « Abdulhamit strongly emphasised the empire's Muslim identity, inviting conservative Sunni clerics from across the Islamic world to settle in the empire and playing up the Christian versus Muslim aspect of European aggression. In the process, he moved the empire away from its traditional identity as religiously diverse and tolerant. »
• « This status quo was shattered in 1979 by the Iranian Revolution. What began as a coalition of intellectuals, students, workers and clerics opposed to the Shah's oppressive regime was overtaken by the most fanatical branch of the Iranian Shia clergy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. »
• « Within months, however, Iraq became a state of murderous anarchy, as former Ba'ath Party leaders (ousted by US forces), local Islamic clerics and members of different tribal or ethnic groups led rival insurgencies against the occupying US military and their own Iraqi rivals. »