11.   On the religious side, it gave the supreme leader, the office of leading spiritual guide currently occupied by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, immense power.

12.   Persuasion comes easily for the former drug dealer and ex-convict turned spiritual guide.

13.   Sure, he is the spiritual guide to a billion Roman Catholics.

14.   Thank you, Dad, coach and spiritual guide.

15.   Tansi, nonplused in his newfound mysticism, said that his spiritual guide had told him earlier in the day that foreigners would soon be arriving.

16.   The press criticizes everyone except the spiritual guide, but papers that go too far get shut down.

17.   There is talk, for example, of smoke signals and Indian children who, on vision quests, try to summon spiritual guides.

18.   Through his prodigious writings, Merton became a spiritual guide to people all over the world.

19.   A senior Shiite Muslim cleric widely thought to be the spiritual guide of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah guerrilla group denounced the bombings.

20.   Al-Bashaer is a religious radio station run by Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who is the reputed spiritual guide of Hezbollah.