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Sentence count:223+3Posted:2017-01-01Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: energyallergicclerkruleremergegallerykillerdealerMeaning: ['klɜːdʒɪ]  n. in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity). 
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91. It also provided approximately 40% of the stipends and housing costs of the 11,500 serving clergy.
92. A flood of news reports about priestly pedophilia had inflamed Catholics' concern about the integrity of their clergy.
93. But while they defended against outsiders, a new enemy came from their own clergy ranks.
94. And many parochial clergy react by resenting and despising the chapter.
95. The clergy had a financial independence which the laity lacked.
96. He was asking local people for money and also approached local clergy.
97. This time James instructed the bishops to order all their clergy to read the Declaration from the pulpit on two successive Sundays.
98. Both these acts brought him into conflict with the king and with some of his own clergy.
99. The churches were bereft of most of their clergy and many of their most able lay members.
100. By the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, moral laxity in the administration of confession by the clergy was evident.
101. As a pastor he was diligent and although iconoclastic, he defended the clergy against outside attack.
102. Their spiritual development must be the responsibility of the clergy, perhaps with the help of others.
103. Mexican law prohibits the clergy from teaching in universities and schools.
104. That the White Revolution was massively acclaimed by referendum in 1973 did not commend it any the more to the clergy.
105. However, instead of becoming alienated against Richard Baxter, the people had become alienated against the bishops and clergy instead.
106. For example, what if a student committee selects the clergy and provides directions for the emphasis of the invocation?
107. These might include clergy, vergers and others, in addition to directors of music.
108. The clergy were beginning to pay the price for assessing their own tax in their own assembly.
109. Burdensome as royal taxation was during the war, the clergy were mercifully free of papal taxation except on two occasions.
110. Parents, teachers, and local clergy are campaigning to have the decision reversed.
110. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
111. The cultural and intellectual calibre of the clergy has since declined, while intolerance and aggressiveness are on the increase.
112. Clergy and musicians need to use their imagination as well as their professional skills.
113. The hold tightened as Saxon thegns and clergy gave way to Normans.
114. Clergy have a prime role in setting up schools and a favoured position of direct relationships with the appropriate state institutions.
115. We simply do not have the structures or the resources to give proper pastoral care to clergy wives.
116. The 1340-1 crisis, therefore, underlines the connections rather than the divisions between clergy and laity, church and crown.
117. The long struggle by popes and bishops for celibacy among the clergy was not over by Innocent's pontificate.
118. The clergy will view a positive outcome as a signal of good will, encouraging them to keep their buildings open.
119. They held their own diocesan synods, ordained clergy, confirmed children and heard certain cases in their courts.
120. The following Sundays, for example Trinity Sunday, are the days specially fixed for the ordination of the clergy.
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