Sentence examples similar to heavenly mandates from inspiring English sources
It was a kind of soul-struggle and heavenly mandate at the same time.
And when she died in early 1996, people began whispering that Mr. Suharto's heavenly mandate was slipping away.
In the oriental tradition, a natural disaster is believed to be an omen, one that signals the disqualification of a ruler by heavenly mandate.
The emperor, considered to be the son of heaven (tianzi), cultivated his de by performing rituals designed to propitiate heaven (tian) and thereby retain the heavenly mandate (tianming) for his reign.
The emergence of epidemics in China, then, simply calls for a geming – the Chinese word for revolution, which means a change of mandate under heavenly governance.
The potential downside is that turbo engines – they of the lagging throttle response, low redline and often strangled, uninspired sound – seem antithetical to the Ferrari ethos, which mandates fast-twitch throttles and heavenly rev peaks of 9,000rpm, accompanied by a Shangri-La soundtrack of cylinders urged into motion by a flat crankshaft.
The subtext of later Vaughan Williams compositions such as Sancta Civitas (1925) and the opera The Pilgrim's Progress (completed in 1951 after a lifetime's tinkering) is the ethical-spiritual journey to a kingdom without a king, to the heavenly city run by a people's mandate.
But where school prayer is mandated, students from all walks of life have often been required to acknowledge an "Almighty God" or "Heavenly Father," whether through regulation or just social pressure.
The dancers were heavenly.
