divine decree
Example Sentences
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The British colonizers were driven by the belief that they were entitled by divine decree and by royal declaration to live on and use the land and resources of North America.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
In such a nation as this, an election is equivalent to a divine decree, and irreversible.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Behold well pleased 450 I seek to finish thy divine decree.
From Poetical Works of Akenside by Gilfillan, George
No, my soft charmer, our souls were touched with the same shafts of love before they had a being in our bodies, and can we contradict divine decree?
From Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Behn, Aphra
Ea means to say that he did not interfere with the divine decree.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
