The history of the two orders of nuns who inhabited the convent was influenced by many important personalities from both sacred and secular circles.

With Pony in secular circles, answerable to the King, her influence on the Church would come from outside, far less dangerous, to Je'howith's thinking, than from inside.

Humanist minuscule is a handwriting or style of script that was invented in secular circles in Italy, at the beginning of the fifteenth century.

Niebuhr's analysis was grounded in the Christianity of Augustine and Calvin, but he had, nonetheless, a special affinity with secular circles.

There seems to be some reaction against permissiveness within marriage even in sophisticated, secular circles.

Egyptian Coptic, however, often still appeared in ecclesiastical and secular circles.

In present-day modern secular circles in Israel the name is not common, being identified as "a diaspora name".

Another stalwart is Professor Charles Handy, who commands much respect in secular circles.

Shafik's presidency was seen as lesser evil by some other activists from the liberal and secular circles of the uprising.

In secular political circles today, there was widespread relief that a new Government has finally been formed without the participation of Islamic leaders or their supporters.