11.   Senior religious scholars have posed a series of open challenges, amid widespread accusations of corruption and, worse, decadence.

12.   Six senior religious scholars left their jobs and challenged others in the religious establishment to follow suit.

13.   Some critics of the service argue that only the most senior Islamic scholars have the wisdom to dispense answers on matters of law or practice.

14.   The young doctor, like the senior scholar, prefers research to humanity.

15.   Tom Mortenson, a senior scholar with the Center for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, said the HOPE program has a major flaw.

16.   Tom Mortenson, a senior scholar at the Center of the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, disagrees.

17.   Yalom is a senior scholar at the Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University.

18.   But senior Saudi Islamic scholars condemned the attack.

19.   Sheik Abdul-Aziz bin Baz issued his ruling at a meeting of senior Saudi Islamic scholars last month in the western city of Taif.