| They doggedly believe that EC should just clerically run the elections which must be ordered by them, for their benefit, at their convenience. |
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| They are laying the pillars of a new, clerically protected democratic order. |
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| Escriva grew up in a clerically top-heavy society, where lay people were largely passive in the Church. |
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| A table of very smooth, middle-aged vicars so clerically attired that you'd swear they were in fancy dress. |
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| Dance, other than in its folk expressions, was sternly frowned upon in the clerically dominated Québec of his youth. |
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| This new government, however, managed to alienate the native population by seizing clerically held lands, closing religious schools, and abolishing shariat courts. |
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| For most people, religion has ceased to be a matter of belonging to a clerically led community, affirming unchanging dogma, participating in prescribed rituals, and holding conservative social attitudes. |
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| His plump hands were transparent against the clerically black vest. |
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