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On display is an increasingly bitter fight, verging on an irrevocable break, between conservative supporters of the present system of clerical government, as epitomized by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and the hardliners backing the non-clerical president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Geneive Abdo: Clash Over Mashaei Reveals Fissures Within the Iranian Regime Geneive Abdo 2011
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Actually, if you want to use that analogy, then this characterization of Arab Muslims would make them quite analogous to Southern conservative whites, who are quite often not only quick to vengeful violence, but engage in huge amounts of domestic abuse, oppose modern non-clerical education, use bellicose rhetoric, frequently back the notion of an anti-modern separatist movement, and back fundamentalist religious initiatives over secular democracy.
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On display is an increasingly bitter fight, verging on an irrevocable break, between conservative supporters of the present system of clerical government, as epitomized by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and the hardliners backing the non-clerical president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Geneive Abdo: Clash Over Mashaei Reveals Fissures Within the Iranian Regime Geneive Abdo 2011
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The government needs to fill 270,000 "mission-critical" -- non-clerical, non-support -- positions by 2012, an increase of 40 percent over the previous three years, according to a study last year by the Partnership for Public Service, a non-profit organization that promotes government service.
Résumé adviser helps ranks of would-be federal workers navigate applications 2010
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The government needs to fill 270,000 "mission-critical" -- non-clerical, non-support -- positions by 2012, an increase of 40 percent over the previous three years, according to a study last year by the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization that promotes government service.
Résumé adviser helps ranks of would-be federal workers navigate applications 2010
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The government needs to fill 270,000 "mission-critical" -- non-clerical, non-support -- positions by 2012, an increase of 40 percent over the previous three years, according to a study last year by the Partnership for Public Service, a non-profit organization that promotes government service.
Résumé adviser helps ranks of would-be federal workers navigate applications 2010
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However it was becoming increasingly apparent that British universities would be important for scholars in a wide range of non-clerical professions, including the law and government.
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The other issue is that, except during the 2e era, D&D has never provided examples of non-clerical "priests," which is to say, religious leaders who tended to the needs of the faithful.
Medic! James Maliszewski 2008
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The other issue is that, except during the 2e era, D&D has never provided examples of non-clerical "priests," which is to say, religious leaders who tended to the needs of the faithful.
Medic! James Maliszewski 2008
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Marty Sklar has released a moving tribute to Harriet Burns the first non-clerical woman to work at Walt Disney Imagineering.
Wednesday Kickoff – Disney News Roundup | The Disney Blog 2008
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