Sentence examples for ordained duty from inspiring English sources

Yet demonology was also profoundly destabilizing; to suggest that the nation was afflicted with demonic influence was to suggest that the queen failed to do her divinely ordained duty.Hoping to cure the nation of such dangerous illusions, Scot and others maintained that the idol's power was only a trick of the imagination: put your trust not in fancy, they suggested, but in magistrates.

Drawing on questionable accounts of early Islamic expansion, the militant organization believes it has a divinely ordained duty to smash symbols of idolatry that challenge the oneness of God.

After 1967 it embraced the religious settlement movement that encouraged Jews to live in the occupied territories, especially the West Bank, as a divinely-ordained duty.

They talk of "federal wolves" undermining their property rights, and challenging the God-ordained duty of humans to protect their own families, and exercise dominion over Creation.Crying wolfYellowstone's hidden moral disputes offer wider lessons to America, a country that is increasingly divided and unusually keen on tackling complex ethical questions in judicial and quasi-judicial settings.

A calm man who is surrendered unto God is not attached to any place or people, but carries out his duties as ordained by the Supreme thus always remaining pure.

He entered the Society of Jesus in 1935, was ordained in 1946 and performed his priestly duties throughout his academic career.

Tells about the duties of the fathers, who are ordained priests, and the brothers who are not ordained.

Only "ordained, commissioned or licensed ministers" who perform certain duties for the church may receive an income-tax-exempt housing allowance.

And yet, behind these grim masks, there continues to reside the guilty belief that happiness is ordained by Jefferson (and possibly God) to be our duty.

He undertook religious duties even as he pursued his scholarly career, having been ordained in 1935.

"Thein Sein told Sitagu that he was busy with the duties of a president and promised that he would be ordained as soon as he finished his term as president".