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
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
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
There is one place in the world devoted by divine decree to pure air.
From Among the Forces by Warren, Henry White
It was T’ai-po Chin-hsing, who was the bearer of a divine decree, which he handed to Miao Shan.
From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
