divine decree
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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
I nevah saw so cleahly the divine decree which has fo’eo’dained us to this opulence.
From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Quick, Herbert
A divine decree or eternal regulation of the universe there verily is, in regard to every conceivable procedure and affair of man; faithfully following this, said procedure or affair will prosper....
From The Days of Mohammed by Wilson, Anna May
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
You do not alter facts by neglecting them, nor abrogate a divine decree by disbelieving it.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander
