cleric
Example Sentences
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A family dispute has also caught attention: his sister Badri fell out with her family in the 1980s and fled to Iraq in the war to join her husband, a dissident cleric.
From Barron's
Ayatollah Khomeini, the cleric who had promised everyone everything, arrived on a Western jet from Paris.
The cleric spoke in Julis, a quiet Druze village in northern Israel, where the community has set up an "emergency room" to coordinate aid efforts for Druze in Syria.
From Barron's
The charismatic cleric could lean on a vast network of mosques and charitable organizations to coordinate the popular mobilization.
As Archbishop of Westminster, the cleric has become the president of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and leads an estimated four million Catholics.
From BBC
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