It focuses on the "way" () that is prescribed by a heavenly mandate not only to the ruler but to everyone.

On entering his house, he met Morrel, who wandered about like a ghost awaiting the heavenly mandate for return to the tomb.

The party only allows itself to perform the "heavenly mandate," and neither Mr. Deng nor his conservative colleagues likes such ideas as freedom of speech and democracy.

And when she died in early 1996, people began whispering that Mr. Suharto's heavenly mandate was slipping away.

In Hong Kong she was said to have left behind a large number of heavenly mandates (天命).

Until today there are few elders in Hong Kong who were believed to be the keeper of these heavenly mandates.

It was a kind of soul-struggle and heavenly mandate at the same time.

Ms. DaRosa took the dream as a heavenly mandate.

An Ike-like "trust me" from the pol with trust's heavenly mandate carries the day.

She must cleanse herself because deep inside she still doubted the heavenly mandate of Starways Congress; she still believed they were not just.