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• Adjective : a clerical job. ,a clerical assistant; a clerical staff. ,clerical garb. ,a clerical party
• The clerical population has risen from around 25,000 to more than 45,000, and the nonclerical population has more than tripled, to about 700,000.
• This “logic” makes no sense UNLESS one grasps that this is the Muslim ummah speaking – ie, one individual speaking out for all nonclerical Faithful.
• Like him, these ideologues were nonclerical veterans of the 1980s Iran-Iraq War and were often far more politically and theologically uncompromising than many clerics.