| The threat of excommunication hangs over anyone tempted to break the vow of silence. |
| Finally, in 1258 a bungled deal with the Papacy threatened Henry with excommunication. |
| Grey's anatomical studies follow the precedent set by Michelangelo, who risked excommunication to secretly study anatomy in a morgue. |
| His condemnation of violence and wealth, of government repression and church hypocrisy, brought him administrative pinpricks and excommunication. |
| I hope you have the wit to laugh at the abbess's silly excommunications? |
| Since the mutual excommunications of 1054, the Pope in Rome was committed to establishing authority over the eastern church. |
