Sentence examples for divinely appointed from inspiring English sources

What for Thales guaranteed the regularity and rationality of the world was the innate divinity in all things that directed them to their divinely appointed ends.

He saw himself as a charismatic, divinely appointed leader, like Gideon of old.

Elizabeth's transformation from retiring princess to divinely appointed queen was swift.

Even his apparent triumph at Canossa was tempered by his loss of status as a divinely appointed ruler.

The Christian emperor entered not only the political but also the sacred succession of the divinely appointed Roman emperor.

Elizabeth wrote back, expressing her shock that subjects should behave so wickedly toward their lawful and divinely appointed Prince.

The average income in China is £700 a year, but you could spend that in one evening in Shanghai if you dined at the sumptous M on the Bund, followed it up with drinks in the lushly appointed Glamour bar next door, went on to the divinely over-decorated Yongfu Elite (once the British consulate) and then the odd club or three.

However worthy and appropriate other demands or activities may be, they must not be permitted to displace the divinely-appointed duties that only parents and families can adequately perform.

Another piece of the puzzle: compressed into this single provocative quotation is not only an entire political theory and political theology (more on this in a moment), but it is also a snapshot of trends in American religiosity that challenge the sovereignty of "we the people" in favor of a divinely-appointed king.

Shiites, like the Orthodox Christians, have a divinely-appointed religious leader and a formal hierarchy similar in structure to the Catholic Church.

Mr Brown appointed the panel.