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Example sentences for: cleric

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1) Moderate Arab countries that boycotted a U.S.-sponsored conference last month are attending a global Islamic conference hosted by Iran, whose supreme cleric opened the meeting with a denunciation of the United States and its military presence in the Persian Gulf.
In Gates' essay, those who would favor a stand of principle over the ties of blut and boden (or even business)--whistle-blowers, antiwar dissenters, anyone who says "I often place my duty to society above my duty to my company"--are characterized as "William Godwin types all, letting their own dear mothers burn to a crisp with nary a second thought while they grandly escort some silk-bedizened cleric to safety."
Large-scale conversions were led by Martin de Tours, a soldier turned cleric.
He and the cleric Azzam had joined in creating a "Bureau of Services" (Mektab al Khidmat, or MAK), which channeled recruits into Afghanistan.
Omari, for example, is believed to have been a student of a radical Saudi cleric named Sulayman al Alwan.