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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(91) The new ruler of the gods owed Prometheus much for helping him conquer the other Titans, but he forgot his debt.
(92) He had been catapulted into the awesome role of negotiator with his country's ruler more by chance than anything else.
(93) She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred, especially when learning the piano.
(94) When his worship spread to a town where there was already a divine ruler the two were slowly fused into one.
(95) As early as 1196 Henry, a ruler of very considerable foresight, had prepared for the succession.
(96) The benign ruler who took over, Major-General Bantu Holomisa, spoke at the graveside.
(97) The ruler line counts characters in 10s however many characters per inch your printer can produce.
(98) It is clear, therefore, that the Frankish kingdom was not automatically divided between all the sons of the previous ruler.
(99) All the accounts I have examined agree, more or less, that Zeus is the ruler of the cosmos.
(100) Longtime Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin was quick to absorb the lesson.
(101) First, draw two straight lines across the page using a ruler.
(102) Despite his arrogance and cruelty towards opponents, he had been a remarkably enlightened and often liberal and generous ruler.
(103) Ullman the Second, ruler of Crolgaria for thirty years, died unexpectedly in a riding accident yesterday while hunting.
(104) Her eyes were now riveted on the ruler in the nun's hand.
(105) Would a system not be a dictatorship if the ruler is unable to exercise absolute power?
(106) This is easy enough, but measuring along the coastline requires a very long ruler indeed.
(107) Guntiarius appears again as ruler of a Burgundian kingdom in the Rhineland which was destroyed by the Huns in c. 435.
(108) Love is an emotional opium of the mind. Love is the ruler of the heart. Dr T.P.Chia
(109) If this was a kingdom, did Vic imagine himself to be its ruler,[sentencedict.com] Mungo wondered?
(110) It is probably anachronistic to imagine that Offa intended to create a single southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom under one ruler.
(111) They had been imprisoned there by a long dead ruler, Llud.
(112) But, at least in the short term, a new military ruler looks to be the likely outcome.
(113) No earthly ruler dared interfere with the civil life of his church and kingdom.
(114) A poor response from Valencia was easily overcome and within the city there was much murmuring against the new ruler.
(115) They also created a mythical patron, a just ruler who rewarded the good and punished evil doers by unleashing massive snowstorms.
(116) He was quiet and unassuming, an indifferent soldier but an able ruler.
(117) Roussel thereupon encircled the palace at Hue with a thousand troops and demanded an audience with the boy ruler.
(118) These papal letters represent the high point in the campaign for a Church both spiritually and temporally independent of the lay ruler.
(119) No one had taken up Sylvian's work, despite the ominous ruler and ink.
(120) A woman who is ruler of a principality.