divine sanction

Here is England under the oppression of a king who claims divine sanction for his oppression.

He perished by the monstrous imposture of associating divine sanction with the crimes of his sanguinary reign.

Because they have denied the divine sanction and the perpetuity of the great dogmas which enter into the Christian creed.

But, notwithstanding the divine origin and the divine sanction of morality, its measure and test are purely human.

In framing this myth from the fragments of older myths, divine sanction was given to the supremacy achieved by Merodach's city.