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clerics were sharply divided on the issue of whether the war was morally justified
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Mojtaba’s rise, or the rise of any other cleric, will thus prompt the country’s people to further pressure Tehran.
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Akbar Ganji, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2025
Many Christian clerics and secular rulers in western Europe believed that the popes needed to return to Rome, to distance papal authority from French influence.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
His mother's independence as a nurse who ignored many of the Jim Crow South's racial segregation customs, and his exposure to Black playmates, clerics and, neighboring sharecroppers, formed his eventual embrace of equal opportunity for all Americans.
—Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
Virtually overnight, the new gender apartheid state rolled back laws and opportunities that had for decades already lifted Iranian women up from the subservience clerics demanded.
—Mariam Memarsadeghi, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
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Akbar Ganji, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2025
Many Christian clerics and secular rulers in western Europe believed that the popes needed to return to Rome, to distance papal authority from French influence.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
His mother's independence as a nurse who ignored many of the Jim Crow South's racial segregation customs, and his exposure to Black playmates, clerics and, neighboring sharecroppers, formed his eventual embrace of equal opportunity for all Americans.
—Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
Virtually overnight, the new gender apartheid state rolled back laws and opportunities that had for decades already lifted Iranian women up from the subservience clerics demanded.
—Mariam Memarsadeghi, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Cleric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cleric. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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cleric
noun
cler·ic
ˈkler-ik 
: a member of the clergy
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