Sentence examples for by mediatory from inspiring English sources

Prayers of intercession to the divine are supported by mediatory minor gods or human protectors (alive or dead), marabouts (dervishes, or mystics, believed to have special powers) in Islam, or saints in Christianity, whose mediation ensures that the prayer will be efficacious.

Conversely, they can be mediatory devices used by a god or other supernatural being to relate to humans in the profane realm.

God's transcendence is maintained by delegating to the world soul some mediatory demiurgic performance (see above, sect. 4.1; cf. Opsomer 2005, 94 5).

Yoo et al (2004) suggested that a LTB4-BLT2-linked cascade has a crucial mediatory function in cell transformation induced by oncogenic Ha-RasV12.

Photography is inclusive in its mediatory role.

It would have, much as Alan Rusbridger has suggested, both a mediatory and an adjudicative function.

It failed to play a mediatory role, let alone rise to the challenges".

His mediatory work having become nearly impossible, Lie resigned his office on Nov. 10, 1952.

There appears to have been no mediatory body at this date.

The mediatory role of the United States and its envoy, George Mitchell, was crucial in all stages of Northern Ireland's peace process.

These objects thus can be mediatory devices to contact the divine world, as, for example, the drums of shamans (religious personages with healing and psychic-transformation powers).