Sentences with phrase «by divine right»
The old Empire, backed by the divine right of kings, was gone, replaced by a far weaker Roman - style military dictatorship... a dictatorship that had lost a war and fallen under High Elf control.
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They rule almost by divine right, shouldering the «white man's burden» even though they have not quite been requested to do so by the Indians.
Kane and Vertigo don't top the chart by divine right.
In traditional Western thinking, people derived the virtue to obey the law because God, the Supreme Lawgiver, issued it through the king, who ruled by divine right.
«By divine right of mayoralty, or someone, 13 vehicles waited at the curb in a no - standing zone, among them four black S.U.V.s (three Chevy Suburbans and one Yukon XL) an ambulance, a huge E.M.S. vehicle and a police school safety van.
«The Pope takes the place of Jesus Christ on earth... by divine right the Pope has supreme and full power in faith, in morals over each and every pastor and his flock.
By contrast, some Anglican divines in the first part of the seventeenth century taught that kings ruled by divine right or authority.
It was Tory backbenchers protecting Tory peers who believe they rule by divine right that scuppered these reforms as before they fought moves to remove hereditary peers.
We'll keep an ear to the ground, but lately there's been stirrings from Capitol District Democrats that this seat, being vacated on January 1 after 34 years by Woodstock's Karen Peters, may not necessarily be Ulster's by divine right.
The unexpected sacking and replacement of Rosie Winterton by Nick Brown has seen her defenestration treated as if the office was hers by divine right.