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
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)
Her adjustment to the divine decree seems now to be internal, and not simply a yielding to an external power.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
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
He pictured the long lingering illness that followed that fatal wound, the patience of the sufferer, the unfaltering front with which he faced death, and his simple resignation to the divine decree.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John
