Sentence examples for drive to rule from inspiring English sources

However, political Islam continued its drive to rule in other parts of the region.

This is similar to Fidel Castro's reflections on the inherent evil of the US economic system and drive to rule the world.

A vision of the "hell on earth" that is a literary party and revulsion for "a lot of sherry-drill with important people" drove Philip Larkin to rule himself out of consideration as the Oxford professor of poetry, according to an unpublished letter recently discovered in a college safe.

It's a difference that means that he alone among the would-be Kings is not driven by the desire to rule.

Alex Rodriguez of the Mariners thought he had tied it with a two-run homer in the seventh, but his long drive to left was ruled foul by the third base umpire, Fieldin Culbreth.

The speech was consistent with the prime minister's earlier drive to toughen disclosure rules for public servants, and to require senior officials to reveal their family assets.

Members of both parties admitted some culpability in the political fighting, with Democrats conceding that their headlong drive to alter the rules may have been overly aggressive.

As it reeled from the recall of half a billion eggs for possible salmonella infection, the American egg industry was already battling a movement to outlaw its methods as cruel and unsafe, and adapting to the Obama administration's drive to bolster health rules and inspections.

Conscientiousness: How strong is your drive to follow the rules and finish what you start?

Green thought he had his first major league homer in the fifth inning, when his drive to right field was ruled fair by the first-base umpire Gary Cederstrom.

If an actual trained, professional estate agent called in sick on a Saturday or Sunday, they'd phone me at 6am, and I'd stumble out of bed, hungover, put on the same cheap, crumpled H&M suit jacket as always, cover up my tattoo because that was the never-said-but-implied rule, drive to the site and learn a fact sheet about the houses or flats I was selling.