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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A number of distinguished commentators, most of them ecclesiastics, were assembled to evaluate the programmes and their implications.
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Among themselves, ecclesiastics have become eminently sophisticated and erudite.
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High ecclesiastics were men of authority as well as of sanctity.
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In consequence, a gulf has opened between ecclesiastics and their congregations.
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Indications that Cnut had difficulties with some Fenland ecclesiastics can also be considered in this context.
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Not impossibly there was a resistance movement in the Fens, as later under William the Conqueror, and ecclesiastics became involved.
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Personal ambition was doubtless another factor which tended to enmesh ecclesiastics in politics.