dispensation

Our narrator insists that such a dispensation was never on offer or agreed to in 1982 when the band came together.

As a freelance writer under the old dispensation, I had qualified as a Sole Proprietor and was able to insure both of us.

A few weeks later, after many appeals, I was given special dispensation to return briefly to my hometown to bury her ashes.

Does this special dispensation apply to all democratically elected governments?

Instead, it needs the special dispensation of a party leader or speaker.

Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.

As for the ruin of any other party, the idea, by a very happy dispensation, never once occurred to him.

For these people, under the older dispensation, there was nothing but the poorhouse, the jail or starvation by the roadside.

And not less, than under a former dispensation, is the exercise represented as an act of obedience in New Testament times.

It stands enjoined among those precepts that are inculcated for every dispensation.