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Example sentences for: clergy

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Gorney gives us a fascinating glimpse, for example, of the involvement of the clergy in helping women obtain illegal abortions in the late '60s.
The stubborn aristocracy and high clergy were anxious to protect their ancient privileges; a burgeoning bourgeoisie longed for reforms that would give them greater opportunity; the peasantry was no longer prepared to bear the burden of feudal extortion; and a growing urban populace of artisans groaned under intolerable hardships.
More powerful royal stewards were sent out to diminish the autonomy of the regional parlements, councils with judicial rather than legislative functions, dominated by the high clergy and the nobles.
He wiped out the liberation theology movement, which had enlivened the church, particularly by attracting new clergy.
Latin, through the clergy, was widely introduced to the native idiom and took a strong position in the law well before the Conquest.