He took a certain pride in his casual, nonclerical image.

Originally for exclusive use by the friars, in the year 2000, the church library was opened to all serious nonclerical researchers.

It was the nonclerical human- ists who formed the vanguard of the Reformation.

Practitioners were often members of the Christian clergy, though some nonclerical practitioners are recorded.

In 1969, the board of trustees was reorganized to include a majority of nonclerical members, which officially made the University an independent institution.

Thobicus was the dean, and as such, he had the authority to hire or dismiss any of the nonclerical assistants that he chose.

It found people of color represent 6.1 percent of professional staff - from nonclerical editorial staff, freelance writers and sales staff up through the publisher's level.

(With an additional mouth soon to feed and Jessie's pay stopped and his own promotions to the nonclerical levels as far off, seemingly, as ever, extra work was necessary.)

More than 870 priests, 3,700 nuns and 1,000 nonclerical employees keep the Roman Catholic Church's vast array of institutions and services functioning while tending to the spiritual needs of their followers.

I think it is precisely because priests evoke this mysterious world of the sacred that pedophilia among them seems more despicable - and more compelling - than the same behavior among nonclerical men.

Roy Marvin, the company's vice president of administration, said that women who worked in hourly, nonclerical jobs at any time from 1978 through 1988 would be eligible and that the company would notify them within 45 days.

They will pray," Mr. Zwilling said of the demonstrators, members of a mostly nonclerical group called Helpers of God's Precious Infants, which has held monthly vigils outside abortion clinics in the metropolitan area for about two years.

Colby also pointed to an expose published in a 1963 copy of Ad Age that revealed that "out of over 20,000 employees, the report identified only 25 blacks working in any kind of professional or creative capacity, i.e., nonclerical or custodial."