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
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
What possibility could there have been of reversing the divine decree?
From Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion by Ethan Allen
A divine decree or eternal regulation of the universe there verily is, in regard to every conceivable procedure and affair of man; faithfully following this, said procedure or affair will prosper....
From The Days of Mohammed by Anna May Wilson
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 Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
