The clergy are often held to a higher standard than other people.    From LearnThat.org. 

Photo in Slideshow: Members of the clergy from the Greek ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Vandals, who had listened to the eloquence of the Latin clergy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

The role of the clergy is to observe and advise the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

If they can’t seek the help of blood family, the clergy is their next viable step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » The Senate Doesn’t Trust Clergy] Reference

The Scotch have a good many little ways that are like ours; they call their clergy ministers, as we do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1] Reference

What business does this person have attacking Obama for having relationships with certain clergy members?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama takes heat from Catholic League over Pfleger] Reference

For the past 20 months these non-ACoC clergy and lay leaders have excluded ACoC clergy from the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spinning the New Westminster vs. ANiC court ruling « Anglican Samizdat] Reference

If they fell, the spirit of the Latin clergy did not hesitate to adorn their tomb with the crown of martyrdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

Master Mackaront, no novice to the inevitably narrowed viewpoint of long-term clergy, accepted the response with a nod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Immortalis]

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bush Supports Constitutional Amendment Banning Gay Marriage, Distorts Meaning of Democracy] Reference

The Latin clergy, who erected their tribunal on the ruins of the civil and common law, have modestly accepted, as the gift of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

You've also got the clergy, which is the ayatollah.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2007] Reference

If, that is, the clergy were not up to their duties.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

Some of the clergy were the first to indicate new life.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference

The above relates to what was called the clergy of France.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Regime] Reference

The clergy are the instructors of the people on sacred subjects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Testament Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions of Chapters and Verses.] Reference

The clergy were the agents of spiritual declension in Germany, 76.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference

One of my clergy is a keen gardener and he runs the gardening club at school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Today] Reference

The clergy were the agents whom he employed to sustain the courage of his soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference

The day will come when you will find that the clergy are the only class who can help you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference

The civil constitution of the clergy was a severe check given to the many existing abuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris as It Was and as It Is] Reference

All the English Catholic schools are in the hands of the regular clergy, which is a mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Altar Steps] Reference

I have always been in doubt as to whether the clergy were a necessary or an unnecessary evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews] Reference

The clergy were the friends of order and law, and they were the natural guardians of learning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beacon Lights of History] Reference

The only thing that is reserved to the clergy is the celebration of the services and sacraments.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from SVOTS.Edu] Reference

The clergy are our spiritual advisers, preparing us for a pleasant and easy place in another world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference

The actual teaching of the clergy was a grotesque distortion of the doctrines they professed to expound.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

How, then, could I be the dolt to say or imply that the celibacy of the clergy was a part of the definition of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apologia pro Vita Sua] Reference

The clergy, that is, as a whole, were an integral but a subsidiary part of the aristocracy or the great landed interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference

Comestor, publicly taught that the enforcement of the vow of celibacy on the clergy was a deliberate snare of the devil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304] Reference

At a time when tyranny and rapacity reigned in the castle, the clergy were a chain binding the great to their inferiors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel] Reference

The clergy are the spiritual guides of the people, the custodians of the most important influences which affect humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

But you know that the clergy are a long-sufferin 'lot, more's the pity; they'll endure almost anythin' rather than complain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hepsey Burke] Reference

It is sometimes forgotten that the clergy were the foremost to demand it, and the most persevering in their efforts to obtain it.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference