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 bow before the divine decree that swept them away from Antioch to Jerusalem, but I am not yet prepared to transfer my spiritual allegiance to Italian popes and Greek patriarchs.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Drawn by fire-winged cherubim, he sweeps into view, and voices, in no uncertain tone, his dissatisfaction with the divine decree.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

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

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