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

If you have made no place for yourself by that time in America you belong by a sort of divine decree to the treadmill.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

We were jealous even of the zephyr which passed over you: but when the divine decree is issued, the eye becometh blind!

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous

Is it a divine decree that all this shall tend to no good?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various

But this duty, as I say, has been enjoined me by the deity, by oracles, by dreams, and by every mode by which any other divine decree has ever enjoined anything to man to do.

From Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Cary, Henry