Sentence examples for sacred mandate from inspiring English sources

Even in Shia Islam, where succession to Muhammad is seen as a sacred mandate, the authority handed down was spiritual, not temporal; in that sense the power now held by Iran's clergy is an anomaly.A second line of argument about Islam and democracy concerns law.

"People thought I had insulted their sacred mandate and some thought I should go back to Canada," he said.

Imperial information, an expression of heaven's mandate, was sacred.

The vast majority of Muslims are not fascists or neofascists - wait for it - even if they support some mandate in sacred text to pursue Jihad.

We need some mandate prohibiting human access to these sacred, once pristine wilderness areas.

The federal government mandates that hospitals keep patient privacy sacred under the 1996 Health Information and Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA.

They faced steep opposition from many quarters including a number of Christian denominations who asserted that sacred scripture not only condoned, but more importantly, mandated the practice of slavery.

Mr. Hollande talks about amending Europe's fiscal treaty mandating austerity; Dr. Weidmann views it as sacred.

The sacred texts of both Judaism (also revered by Christians) and Islam mandate the death penalty in certain circumstances.

Despite a League of Nations mandate that South West Africa be administered as a "sacred trust" for its indigenous inhabitants, South Africa's concern was to foster mining, which dominated the economy, and to subsidize poor Afrikaner settlement in what was known as the "Police Zone".

Oklahoma State Senator Constance Johnson's "every sperm is sacred" measure is a sharp rebuttal to assertions that the government should mandate that life begins at conception.