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How to use the word ruler in a Sentence?

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If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.

Sun Tzu

added by TF2Soldier
1 year ago

What does the name Ryan mean? Ryan is an Irish/American name that means The Little King or The Little Ruler.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
2 years ago

Three dead bodies were rotting outside our home for three days, but it was too dangerous to get them. The Taliban is attacking on one side. The government is attacking the other side. In the middle we are just losing, we just want peace. We need peace. We don't care who's the ruler... People said that when America withdraws there would be peace in Afghanistan but then they withdrew and the war got worse.

Mahmad Ismael

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They couldn't admit that they were forced to change course, that they were aware of a threat that weapons would be used against them, the former ruler of the seas couldn't allow for a loss of face by admitting that they submitted to the demands of the Russian side to change course.

Mikhail Khodaryonok

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. #CVirusTruth

Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

No government or ruler wants to be seen to sell Palestine so cheaply and hand Netanyahu such a victory and, in fact, end up footing the bill, at the same time, all states except perhaps Egypt are dependent upon the U.S. and will not risk angering Trump, given his propensity to act like a petulant child.

Neil Quilliam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If they are constantly looking at themselves, then that can become the measure, the ruler, of their worth.

Gail Saltz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is difficult to be certain of your conclusions if you use a ruler that you dont fully understand.

Avi Loeb

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

He was a ruler with no limits and no checks on his power.

Marc Agnifilo

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Tracking a spacecraft as it travels through space is fundamentally a problem of measuring time, we cant just pull out a ruler and measure how far away our spacecraft is. So instead, we measure how long it takes for the spacecraft to echo back a radio signal that is sent from Earth.

Jill Seubert

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There's still a kind of romance and mystery to the story of someone who escaped slavery and was raised to foreign heights next to the prime ruler of Feudal Japan, it feels like the age where he'll get the attention he deserves.

Thomas Lockley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die... a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

George R.R. Martin

added by Normando
5 years ago

Turkey is an important NATO ally and willing partner in addressing a number of U.S. national security priorities, it's concerning that Turkey would seek close defense cooperation with Russia, whose authoritarian ruler seeks to undermine NATO and U.S. interests at every turn.

James Lankford

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It’s an elastic boundary, a rubber ruler, about 48 million people in the U.S. have some kind of diagnosable mental illness.

Jeffrey Swanson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

At present, there is no Muslim country left in the world which has a Sharia ruler – neither Saudi Arabia nor Pakistan, i have found Afghanistan the only country in accordance with Sharia when the Taliban established its control over the land and I support those Taliban’s to-date.

Abdul Aziz

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Artificial intelligence is the future, not only of Russia, but of all of mankind, whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
6 years ago

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Catherine The Great

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Political and sectarian strife, separating between one man and another, between ruler and follower, these mentalities must be changed.

Butrus Moshe

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The four characters on the base say 'jingtian qinmin', which means 'revere heaven and serve thy people,' it really crystallizes the political theory in China whereby heaven bestows its power upon a ruler who is righteous and benevolent.

Nicolas Chow

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

ZANU-PF should be utterly ashamed of hosting an expensive birthday bash for their aging ruler whilst more than 90 percent of Zimbabweans are wallowing in grinding poverty caused by decades of Robert Mugabe's misrule and mismanagement of the economy, the money that is being budgeted for this ill-conceived birthday bash should actually be used to import maize to avert the impending starvation in Masvingo province and other parts of the country.

Obert Gutu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me, today's decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court.

Antonin Scalia

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Nobody is blaming the current German population for the Nazi genocide. It was blamed on Hitler's politics and vision. Similarly while it is widely accepted that the Armenian genocide is the result of the politics of C.U.P in that period, we find it clearly unacceptable to turn back on the Armenians and to put the current Turkish and Kurdish population subject to such suspicions and into a position to defend itself. (Referring to acts of Committee of Union and Progress which was the de-facto ruler of Ottoman Empire during events of mass killings and deportations of Armenians.)

Selahattin Demirtas

added by okean
9 years ago

You (AKP) are very hard on C.U.P. when you wish, you can even say that "C.U.P. ideology has brought tyranny to this land". But when it is about the Armenians you can be even more pro-Enver than Enver or pro-Talat than Talat. I am truly amazed. (Referring to the 2 leaders, Enver Pasha and Talat Pasha of Committee of Union and Progress which was the de-facto ruler of Ottoman Empire during events of mass killings and deportations of Armenians.)

Selahattin Demirtas

added by okean
9 years ago

State security is the real ruler of this country.

Amin Mekki Medani

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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