Sentence examples for given dominion from inspiring English sources

Because man is given "dominion" over all beasts, fowl and fish.

Others hold to the more traditional teaching that humankind was given dominion over animals, so while people should exercise compassionate stewardship over animals, the animals have no "right" to such treatment.

— but a tragedy in which "to be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing".

There have been black superheroes before, and Will Smith's character in "Hancock" (2008) was an unusual blend of potency and dysfunction, but none have been given dominion over a blockbuster.

Instead, players were presented with the world and, like blocky Adams and Eves, they were given dominion.

While humans are given dominion, the Bible understands it as nonviolent stewardship.

"There was this convenient theology to justify it that said, God has given us dominion, and dominion equals domination, therefore the Earth is for us, and we can do what we like with it".

God may have given people dominion over the animals, but such biblical injunctions mean little for the sleek, toned thoroughbreds that are stabled around the Saratoga racetrack.

Daniel then sees the destruction of the last beast by the "Ancient of Days" and the coming of "one like the Son of Man," to whom is given "everlasting dominion that shall not pass away" and whose kingdom will be inhabited by "the people of the saints," who will forever serve and obey him.

God or nature may have given us "dominion" over "all the earth," including fish, fowl, cattle, and "every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth," but surely neither God nor nature have given us license to extinguish all of the above.

"We believe that God gave man dominion over the earth and all that is in it, with the exception of sharks, who have their own dominion, of course".