Synonym: rule, swayer. Similar words: rule, as a rule, ruling, schedule, molecule, clerk, on schedule, truculent. Meaning: ['ruːlə(r)] n. 1. measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths 2. a person who rules or commands.
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(61) Beyond these lay the large realms of the Avars, who were Tartar tribes unified under a ruler known as the Chagan.
(62) The ruler continued to enjoy, unless he were unusually vicious or unlucky, a respect which sometimes verged on worship.
(63) Hence self-restraint of the ruler must be reinforced by effective institutions: restraints upon the arbitrary exercise of governmental power.
(64) He also instructed those around him in these arts, and was far from being just a powerful military ruler.
(65) He loosened his collar, attempted to put a ruler between his teeth, and failed.
(66) King Henry VIII believed his role as ruler was ordained by God.
(67) By the end of the Old Kingdom the role of Osiris as ruler of the dead began to assume more significance.
(68) To check how much a paragraph is inset move the cursor into that paragraph and look at the ruler line.
(69) The ruler could not on his own initiative build fortresses, hire troops or alter the judicial system.
(70) The chief further allowed that he as ruler visited no one.
(71) But the duchy also required government and administration during the absences of its ruler.
(72) For if a sovereign ruler acknowledged no political superior, was this not also true of the state he governed?
(73) But with ruler Mercury in direct motion from the 1st, you can make headway.
(74) You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. Denis Waitley
(75) Adjusting the tiller slightly, Kathy nudged the boat up against the ruler in her head.
(76) Did this mean that Aquitaine was going to be permanently subordinated to the ruler of the Anglo-Norman realm?
(77) The ruler of the nights has always held considerable influence in astrology.
(78) Yet the permanent achievements of her reign were not surpassed by any other ruler of the age.
(79) Why not lay in the line of tempera, holding the brush against a straight edge,[http://sentencedict.com/ruler.html] such as a ruler.
(80) In western as in eastern Christendom coronation was a religious rite which began with the anointment of the ruler with holy oil.
(81) Milan challenged the new ruler and for its troubles was razed to the ground in 1162.
(82) He was delighted to do so, with the implication of being regarded as overall ruler of the kingdom.
(83) A new ruler might adopt a policy of drastically cutting back oil production in order to boost prices.
(84) The Emperor was both a temporal and a spiritual ruler.
(85) Boyer was a strong ruler who united the country until his ouster in 1843.
(86) Mr Obasanjo was running the country on that occasion too, but as a military ruler.
(87) The prefects had the power to cane you on the hand with a ruler.
(88) The prosecution alleges Hammond attacked the girl with his hands, fists, a ruler and the flex from an electric kettle.
(89) In 323-4 civil war ended with the elimination of Licinius, and Constantine was at last sole ruler.
(90) He would have felt it demeaning to condemn this world utterly without first paying a visit to the vicinity of its ruler.