Sentence examples for able ruler from inspiring English sources

An able ruler, he left office having checked corruption among his officials, enforced the laws of the empire, and reorganized finances so that the state revenue was increased.

Mayadunne, the king of Sitawake, was an ambitious and able ruler who sought to expand his frontiers at the expense of his brother at Kotte.

An Arab visitor to western India, the merchant Sulaymān, referred to the kingdom of Juzr (which is generally identified as Gurjara) and its strong and able ruler, who may have been Bhoja.

Although possessed of a despotic temperament and capable of acts of cruelty, Justinian was in many ways an able ruler, who recovered for the empire areas of Macedonia that had previously been conquered by Slavic tribesmen.

It was easy to admire much of what followed, as the merchant transformed himself into the Messenger of God, easy to sympathize with his persecution, and to respect his rapid evolution into a respected lawgiver, an able ruler, and a skilled military leader.

November 1221 August 16, 1258 Theodore II Lascaris, (born November 1221 died August 16, 1258) Byzantine emperor of Nicaea who though not as capable as his grandfather or his father, Theodore I and John III Vatatzes, respectively was an able ruler, a good soldier, and a man of letters; he succeeded in holding together the prosperous state east of Constantinople bequeathed to him by his father.

The dominant state was Bunyoro-Kitara, which originated at the end of the 15th century and, under able rulers, extended its influence eastward and southward over a considerable area.

Under its able rulers of the 16th century (Muḥammad Dunama, ʿAbd Allāh, and especially Idrīs Alawma, who reigned c. 1571 1603), Kanem-Bornu (thereafter sometimes called simply Bornu) was extended and consolidated.

"Able rulers lead it", he advised, "prudent rulers use or follow it; foolish rulers disregard it".

The kingdom quivered with doubt about whether the handsome, charming youth would become an able, assured ruler or an indolent, indecisive one.

He drives around the town, fishing his pipe tobacco out of an old aspirin bottle, and if he notices anything amiss or new he stops to find out for himself what is afoot.His next-door neighbour, Sheikh Khalid of Sharjah, whose state boundary is just a few miles down the road, is another able, hard-working ruler with a business background.