Most, but not all Shi'a believe that these A'immah to be the divinely chosen leaders of the Muslim community.

The majority of Shia regard the heads of the family as divinely chosen Imams who are infallible and sinless.

They believe that God chose Ali to be the successor, infallible and divinely chosen.

Many conservative evangelicals "feel they have a direct line from God," he said, and feel Bush is divinely chosen.

The Quran emphasizes that Jesus was a mortal human being who, like all other prophets, had been divinely chosen to spread God's message.

We are not an elite divinely chosen, simply because we are physicists, to govern mankind.

Possessing that knowledge must have made him feel divinely chosen; sanctioned to commit any act to preserve the fabulously rare thing he had found.

Buffy is the Slayer, divinely chosen to combat evil.

Having a divinely chosen sister confess to one added to the prestige of priests, and some even sought out mystical nuns to take confession from them.

Nonetheless, the government was able to retain its position with the creation of the Mandate of Heaven, which could establish an emperor as divinely chosen to rule.