Oracles in a sentence

When his colleague Lepidus died, Augustus assumed his office as pontifex maximus, took priestly control over the State oracles (including the Sibylline books ), and used his powers as censor to suppress the circulation of "unapproved" oracles.

As for the U.S. Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett is the youngest justice at age 51, and five of the nine black-robed oracles are old enough to potentially receive Social Security benefits.

In Salem, the Maiden, Mother, and Crone — the CEOs, or coven engagement oracles, of VenCo — are on the hunt for the witches who will claim the prophesied seven spoons and bring about a new era that will restore women’s magical powers.

The East Coast Oracles is a rap group that currently includes Gabriel Grimes, Liam Stapleton, Mosiayah Harvey Ahmai, Nehemiah Caradwyn and Sam Cove.

But the long endurance of our constitutional text — to say nothing of our cultural reverence for the framers as oracles — obscures the structural transformations that mark our political history and experience.

Imagine how much worse things will be when today’s high school students, trained to believe that The New York Times and NPR are oracles of truth, find themselves on the college campus.

So let the Delphic Oracles who demand the deal’s rejection, set out in clear terms, how they can achieve a better outcome or else help the DUP carry the load rather than adding to it.

Very quickly, the “madits,” a contraction of “Max a dit (Max said)”, are scrutinized and analyzed like oracles.

In the background were always challenges from Assyrians, Persians, Romans and Mongols, narrated and fought by a colourful cast of oracles, orators and commanders of dogged, lightly equipped horse-mounted warriors.

It happened in the political arena in the US, right inside the oracles’ shrine.

It was also used of the location where the oracles were given.

According to Bernard McGinn, these parts of the oracles were probably written by a Christian and incorporated "mythological language" in describing Nero's return.

Athens 1987.p 134 "Oracles" in other cultures main The term "oracle" is also applied in modern English to parallel institutions of divination in other cultures.

Because of the way oracles interfere with one another's prescience, the Guild Navigator Edric is able to shield the conspiracy from Paul's visions of the future.

Beginning in the New Kingdom, oracles played a major role in the legal system, dispensing justice in both civil and criminal cases.

But however this may be, the Greeks deified him at Hadrian's request, and declared that oracles were given through his agency, but these, it is commonly asserted, were composed by Hadrian himself.

Chapters 4–10 contain a series of oracles, or prophetic sermons, showing exactly why God is rejecting the Northern Kingdom (what the grounds are for the divorce).

Chapters 9 to 14 This section consists of two "oracles" or "burdens": *The first oracle (ch.

Christianity The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible supplies headings for the book as follows: The majority of scholars consider the book to be made up of six distinct oracles.

During the Han Dynasty, many learned scholars—including Zhang Heng—believed in the " oracles of the winds".