Even as she ruled out her candidacy Friday, she stressed that every poll she had seen suggested that she would win the primary.
For as long as she ruled she remained alert to any sign of insurrection, forever anxious that France's new constitutional republic might be received as an example to follow.
The coroner in the Gareth Williams case delivered a damning verdict that was highly critical of the Metropolitan police's counter-terrorism branch and MI6 as she ruled that the officer had probably been killed unlawfully.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel felt differently on Wednesday, as she ruled out any budgetary splurge in the current climate.
She had such authority, as if she ruled the earth, as if she was the first woman on the moon".
"Rather than a source of rights to humane treatment, Article 13 would become a means to shield from public view treatment that Mr Dhiab (and undoubtedly other detainees) view as inhumane," she ruled.
Not even 20 years old, she rules as the absolute monarch of Monsea, and she must accept the painful obligations of her station.
Ms. Bandaranayake was seen as a Rajapaksa loyalist until she ruled in September that Mr. Rajapaksa's younger brother, Basil Rajapaksa, needed to submit a $600 million development bill to the nation's nine provincial councils before it could be approved.
As a result she ruled the entire UK without challenge.
As a result, she ruled that when Trump blocks citizens from viewing and replying to his posts, he violates their First Amendment rights.
She is granted freedom to return to her palace but to reach it, she must walk through the town, naked and shorn, as the people she ruled with such disdain are allowed to pummel her with crude remarks, gestures and objects ranging from fecal matter and urine to rocks and vegetables.
