Sentence examples for from ruler from inspiring English sources

The designer's geometry lesson extended from ruler and square to compass, as skirts swirled with a hula hoop hemline — something that Pierre Cardin linked to the Space Age back in the 1960s.

As in Christian Europe, the stringency or leniency with which these rules were applied – along with ancillary ones forbidding Jews to build new synagogues, wear certain clothing, ride horses or employ Muslims – varied from ruler to ruler and depending on Jewish utility to the state.

Punishments differed from ruler to ruler.

"They peacefully demanded democracy from rulers who held a tight grip on power," he said.

But his tendency to credit official assurances from rulers like Mr. Hussein is not encouraging.

"In the nineteen-twenties, it went from rulers to all Muslims," she told me.

But Iraqi Sunnis have refused to accept their transformation from rulers of the country to a minority within a democracy.

This, and their hobnobbing with everyone from rulers to fellow celebrities, from aristocrats to fascinating arrivistes, gives "The Richard Burton Diaries" considerable interest.

Russia Part 1: From Rulers to Revolutions, written and presented by Martin Sixsmith (5½hrs, BBC, £20) And the same, I suspect will apply to part 2 of former BBC Moscow correspondent Sixsmith's series when he gets to Stalin.

Excisions like Maximian's from frescoes and statues can be viewed in the most basic sense as announcements from rulers to the populace about the end of one reign and the beginning of another.

The trend of modern history, he believed, was pointing back toward decentralized, nonpolitical, cooperative societies in which people could develop their creative faculties without interference from rulers, clerics, or soldiers.