Sentence examples for divine establishment from inspiring English sources
The power of resistance is no more than a divine "establishment," namely, "the constant law or method" of "the actual exertion of God's power" producing instances of resistance.
It may reasonably be inferred that the Virginians did not view the exemption for "houses of divine worship" as an establishment of religion.
The Branch Davidians belonged to the religious tradition that sees Christ's return to earth and the establishment of a divine Kingdom as imminent.
God sets before them a definite goal of salvation the establishment of a divine dominion and through the prophets admonishes the people by proclamations of salvation and calamity whenever they are unfaithful to the covenant and promise.
For a public body to invoke divine guidance is not a step toward the establishment of a religion, one ruling said.
Although the Declaration of Independence mentioned "Nature's God" and the "Creator," the Constitution made no reference to a divine being, Christian or otherwise, and the First Amendment explicitly forbade the establishment of any official church or creed.
Such direct contact with a near-divine was considered an outrage by everybody in the establishment (except Akihito, who carried on chatting with him).
In the words of William Whewell (1794 1866), "events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws".
Thanksgiving is "a narrative about an arduous journey to escape religious persecution for freedom in a new land, the establishment of a democratic charter and the sense of Divine providence that carried those refugees through their plight".
Not in the old-fashioned, establishment idea of Englishness, with its stiff upper lip and sense of divine right to rule.
Israel's role in the divine economy and thus Israel's particular culpability were dominant themes sounded against the motif of fulfillment, the ultimate triumph of the divine purpose, and the establishment of divine sovereignty over all humankind.
