1. To expose and disrupt their scheme, Jesus was pitting himself against the religious establishment of the day.

2. Traditionally, marriage had been, and frequently continues to be, a contract negotiated and executed by the Betrotheds' families and blessed by a representative of the religious establishment

3. At the same time, an anti-clerical, secular movement on behalf of constitutionalism appeared in Iran - a reaction to the absolutist alliance between the Quajar Shahs and the religious establishment.

4. ‘I said they continue to use some of the Apparatuses of socialism to organise the state.’ ‘One forum is the liberal democratic party system and the bureaucratic apparatus of government.’ ‘Prior to this, the military apparatus, the judicial system, and the religious establishment were already in the hands of the conservative circles.’

5. ‘I said they continue to use some of the Apparatuses of socialism to organise the state.’ ‘One forum is the liberal democratic party system and the bureaucratic apparatus of government.’ ‘Prior to this, the military apparatus, the judicial system, and the religious establishment were already in the hands of the conservative circles.’