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Examples
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He is a clergyman's son and there is that puritanical streak in him.
A Face to Match That Name Joanne Kaufman 2011
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Every interview yields stunning surprises: One involves a clergyman's encounter with a squirrel, another a survivor's litany of grief.
High-Altitude Viewing Joe Morgenstern 2011
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During the 2008 campaign, flowing into first year euphoria, there was much talk about "repairing" relations between African Americans and their Jewish "friends," the burden of mending unique cultural fences placed upon the candidate with questioned ties to bombastic black Chicago clergy and that clergyman's ties to a rather loquacious friend in the Nation of Islam.
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The Obama administration Tuesday called a Florida clergyman's plans to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by burning a Koran abhorrent and un-American.
Obama Administration Calls Threatened Koran Burning 'Un-American,' 'Abhorrent' 2010
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The clergyman's position of power and the trust the woman has in him may cause her to doubt her own ability to interpret his intentions when she would have instantly understood in a relationship with someone else.
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He was the clergyman's son who thrived on hard work and liked to talk of the "moral compass" offered by his parents 'example.
Goodbye, Gordon 2010
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The clergyman's position of power and the trust the woman has in him may cause her to doubt her own ability to interpret his intentions when she would have instantly understood in a relationship with someone else.
Archive 2010-03-01 TK 2010
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The Pavkovics disrupted the ceremony after seeing that no Senator would emerge to challenge the Hindu clergyman's beliefs.
Head Of Christian Right Group Calls Hindu Senate Invocation "Gross Idolatry" 2009
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman's calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his home in ... var news_amount = 3;
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman's calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his home in ... var news_amount = 2;
Shirin Sadeghi: Rape and the Republic: Iran's Victims Speak Out 2009
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