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Example sentences for: cleric

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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 was a Whig-turned-fervent-Tory, an activist cleric, a staunch defender of the Anglican Church.
Having no copy of Aelfric's Homilies available to me, I am unable to see exactly what this cleric and grammarian wrote c. 1000, but I will lay you dollars to doughnuts ( low colloq ., ca. 1920, Partridge) that the Grammarian is not the source of the misquote qua proverb, Money is the root of all evil.
Omari, for example, is believed to have been a student of a radical Saudi cleric named Sulayman al Alwan.