Thus, a prince should not be concerned if he is held to be stingy, as this vice enables him to rule.
He earned a reputation for fairness and wisdom that enabled him to rule as absolutely as he wished; only with the Crusade, perhaps, did his judgment falter.
The order had amounted to a second coup by Mr Musharraf, enabling him to rule by decree, sack troublesome judges such as Mr Chaudhry and become president while remaining army chief.
While he needed to be personally present in Normandy to defend the realm from foreign invasion and put down internal revolts, he set up royal administrative structures that enabled him to rule England from a distance.
"Chávez wants to liquidate challenges to his rule to enable him to govern Venezuela for the rest of his life," Manuel Rosales, governor of Zulia State and the main challenger to Mr. Chávez in presidential elections last year, said in an interview at his office in Maracaibo.
In 1993, Mr. Murdoch, who already owned Channel 5, was granted a waiver of that rule to enable him to buy The New York Post, largely because The Post was on the verge of going under and Mr. Murdoch seemed to represent the paper's only chance of survival.
It is "undoubtedly too late" for him to run for the presidency, according to Gaël Sliman of BVA, a pollster, even if the Socialist Party were to change its rules to enable him to do so.
This enabled him to avoid disclosure rules, thereby astounding the railway operator with the news that he owned 27% of its shares.
