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
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
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
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
There is one place in the world devoted by divine decree to pure air.
From Among the Forces by Warren, Henry White
