Example sentences for: dispensation

How can you use “dispensation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That being so, serious rethinking is in order before we invest further in public activities incongruent with the new dispensation.

  • The papers note that Sumner Redstone, Viacom's No. 1, and his counterpart at CBS, Mel Karmazin, will be visiting the FCC in Washington today to appeal for special dispensation on these matters.

  • Darby put his eyes too close to the Scripture pages and decided that history, past and future, was a series of "dispensations": divinely ordained historical epochs in which the Chosen People had been and would be tested and found wanting by God, always leading to the next dispensation.

  • Israel is all-important because premills believe the final dispensation couldn't occur until the Jews were restored to Israel.

  • Lillian Ross, by contrast, takes a rather cheerful view of the Brown dispensation.


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