Sentence examples for has ordained that from inspiring English sources

God or nature has ordained that spare embryos shall be produced for almost every pregnancy.

"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the Moon to rest in peace," it ran.

Kreon has ordained that Antigone's brother Polyneikes, who, along with their brother Eteokles has just died in a cruel civil war, should not be allowed a burial because he is a traitor.

Visitors taken aback by this will be even more astonished to learn from the essay by Bell Hooks that whereas "white male artists can be acclaimed when they use black figures," the establishment has ordained that white images are off limits for black artists (presumably both sexes).

God has ordained that such regularities will occur, and thus we can reach a general principle based on those initial cases.

God has ordained that all living beings, whether plant, animal or human beget "after their kind".

Providence, they said, had ordained that the city should be built here, now.

An over-optimistic superior, Sir John Nixon, had ordained that the men would find all they needed - in Baghdad.

And which choreographer, back in Sofia, had ordained that the presence of two male dancers, writhing around the singer with oiled torsos and what appeared to be shimmering incontinence pants, would truly be in the national interest?

Having ordained that the "peacenik, Saddamite" left had ruled itself out of the debate – "it no longer matters what they think" – he substituted his indignant imagination for the actual debate taking place in the anti-war left.

Since announcing that he would run for the presidency in 2011, Jonathan's presence in office has been a point of tension: an unofficial gentleman's agreement between northern, mainly Muslim leaders and southern, predominately Christian politicians had ordained that presidents will alternate between each region, maintaining a delicate ethnic and religious balance.