divine right in English

king's right to rule (granted by God)

Use "divine right" in a sentence

1. Skill or destiny, or divine right?

2. Waterloo bears divine right on its crupper.

3. It has its divine right of sovereignty.

4. You have no divine right of purchase.

5. The temporal rulers were given thrones divine right.

6. The king claimed to rule by divine right.

7. Monarchy used to be based on divine right.

8. No one has a divine right to success.

9. Constantine was declared to be Emperor by divine right.

10. Divine Right & Backwardness:The Struggles for Justice, Liberty & Democracy

11. People used to believe in the divine right of kings.

12. No player has a divine right to be in this team.

13. A degree does not give you a divine right to wealth.

14. Being my wife doesn't give you the divine right to read my mail.

15. Claim your creation, dominion, abundance and joy because they are yours by divine right.

16. James sought to reassert the divine right of kings, and Parliament combined against him.

17. I had a divine right and a solemn duty to warn them, but failed miserably.

18. 25 I had a divine right and a solemn duty to warn them, but failed miserably.

19. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings.

20. Ideas of Divine Right were, it is true, becoming increasingly difficult to justify in intellectual terms.

21. Political institutions, aided and abetted by religious organizations, are without divine right in trying to stop them.

22. At a stroke the party managers and fixers have lost their assumption of a divine right to power.

23. Renowned historian Jadunath Sarkar describes Mughal emperor Aurangzeb as a man who pushed his divine right to breaking point

24. Both acts are morally wrong - Edward should not have abused his divine right and curried favour by dishing out peerages.

25. Absolutism means that the ultimate authority in the state is rested in the hands of a king who claims to rule by divine right

26. Absolutism in France In Absolutism, the state comes under the rule of one despotic individual who claims to have a divine right to rule

27. People were punished for denying the divine right of kings, or suggesting that people should be treated equally regardless of race, gender, or religion.

28. Under the pretext of the doctrine of ‘the divine right of kings,’ the clergy have claimed to be the essential intermediary between the rulers and God.

29. Louis believed strongly in the divine right of kings, saying that he was the sun and that his courtiers and France should revolve around him like planets.

30. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London "'Enry," she called Authoritatively, "stop teasing those girls, Hi say

31. It then explains that “when Frederick the Great called himself the ‘first servant of the state’ and repudiated the divine right of kings, he was not thinking of abjuring power.”

32. Enlightened Absolutists held that royal power emanated not from divine right but from a social contract whereby a despot was entrusted with the power to govern through a social contract in lieu of any other governments

33. And this perfectly monstrous proposition, which is tantamount to the assertion of the divine right of politicians to be Absolutest despots, immune from criticism and censure, this immoral despotism is proclaimed with such an air of self-righteous virtue that it has almost come to be regarded as a truism—at least, when it concerns the mere Irish.