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
There is one place in the world devoted by divine decree to pure air.
From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren
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
The Council, so to speak, of “headmen” accept the divine decree, and the assembled tribe pass the Act.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
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
