The phrase "a ruling element" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a dominant or controlling factor within a particular context, such as in politics, organizations, or systems.
Example: "In the debate over policy changes, the ruling element was the influence of corporate lobbying."
Alternatives: "dominant factor" or "controlling element".
On Aristotle's view, a community of any sort can possess order only if it has a ruling element or authority.
(4) Principle of rulership Aristotle believes that the existence and well-being of any system requires the presence of a ruling element: "Whenever a thing is established out of a number of things and becomes a single common thing, there always appears in it a ruler and ruled ….
Just as an animal or plant can survive and flourish only if its soul rules over its body (Pol. I.5.1254a34 6, De Anima I.5.410b10 15; compare Plato Phaedo 79e-80a), a human community can possess the necessary order only if it has a ruling element which is in a position of authority, just as an army can possess order only if it has a commander in control.
The Arabs were the ruling element; a distinction was made between baladiyyūn (i.e., Arabs who had entered Spain in 712 under Mūsā) and Syrians (who arrived in 740 under Balj ibn Bishr).
God's dominium has six aspects, three identifiable with lordship's ruling element (creation, sustenance, and governance), and three that define lordship's proprietary nature (giving, receiving, and lending) (De Dominio Divino III, ch. 1, p.198.9 .7 The necessary precondition for an act of dominium is creation, of which no created being is capable.
The uprising spread rapidly as old ruling elements of the six states rose to claim their former titles.
The special burst of energy in the Augustan colonizing spread abroad not only the visible elements of a ruling civilization but the invisible ones as well.
The long-awaited decision overruled important elements of a ruling last October by Judge Brinkema, who had barred the use of the death penalty and blocked prosecutors from preventing evidence to a jury that might link Mr. Moussaoui to the Sept. 11 attacks.
PAGE A6 Last Filing for Microsoft In its final filing before a ruling on antitrust violations, Microsoft sought to alter most elements of the government's breakup plan.
The government may appeal such a ruling.
