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  • Shiites ritually march, flagellate, and chant in honor of the martyred Imam or divinely-appointed leader.

    Iran Election Live-Blogging (Thursday June 18) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

  • According to Thieme, men can recognize their divinely-appointed opposites without physical contact, through something Thieme called "soul climax" [see R.B. Thieme, Jr. 's "Doctrines of The Bible: Doctrine of Right Man and Right Woman" (Microsoft Word Document format).]

    Bruce Wilson: Shooter Read Sexist Christian Author's Book Before Female Aerobics Class Massacre 2009

  • Shiites ritually march, flagellate, and chant in honor of the martyred Imam or divinely-appointed leader.

    Iran Election Live-Blogging (Thursday June 18) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

  • These are the divinely-appointed requisites for a preacher of the

    The Weapon of Prayer 1835-1913 1991

  • The first readers of Hebrews were urged to put their confidence in Christ as God's appointed high priest divinely-appointed, all-sufficient and everlasting.

    Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 1973

  • As the mothers of the future generation of men, you must look upon it as your divinely-appointed task to bring back the moral law in its entirety, the one standard equally binding on men and women alike.

    The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis Ellice Hopkins

  • Laws and rules are, to her, not an unfortunate necessity, inseparable from society, but the divinely-appointed means whereby the human soul shall attain perfect development; not a record of rights grudgingly surrendered by the individual for temporal advantage, but the voluntary placing under foot of capricious impulses, that by this renunciation the individual may ascend to his own noblest freedom.

    The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett

  • The report of the Executive Committee on educational work in the South, confirms the conviction which must have impressed itself on many minds, that the Association is a divinely-appointed agency for carrying forward

    The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 03, March, 1888 Various

  • I was desirous of visiting that place had time allowed, not only for the satisfaction of curiosity on the above account, but in order to get some idea from ocular inspection whether the little winter stream or Wadi there could ever have been the divinely-appointed boundary of the land promised to Abraham and his seed for ever.

    Byeways in Palestine James Finn

  • To all who are able to read him he is exquisitely interesting and delightful, and to some he appeals with the authority of a prophet and divinely-appointed guide.

    My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

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