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
The empire of the sword has also illustrated the divine decree: “All that take the sword shall perish with the sword”.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.
It is the first divine decree, issuing from love and help.
From Home Again by MacDonald, George
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 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Moreover, it is certain that I am not a champion of religion by the law of Nature, that is, by the divine decree.
From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph
