Sentence examples for it rules over from inspiring English sources

One of the reasons that World Rugby often seems unable to act decisively is that it is made up of the unions it rules over: its executives do not have executive powers, something that needs to change.

While the Kim family dynasty, now in its third generation, seems almost immutable, the country that it rules over has altered dramatically.

As a fuller picture of the group's detailed and meticulously planned military network has emerged in recent months — alongside documentation of its atrocities and likely genocide crimes — experts are predicting a protracted and bloody fight to dismantle the so-called caliphate it rules over in both countries.

Campanella has no doubt that religion, whether true or false, is the primary and most powerful unifying force in the political body, in that it rules over souls and brings them together, and that all other ties between human beings depend on it.

In a lengthy November report, Merrill Lynch gushed over its prospects with Auto IS, saying that if competitors don't respond quickly, "EMC could be a position to create, influence and eventually control the storage software and networking market, [carving] out an empire almost in the same way that it ruled over disk attached storage in the open systems arena".

So it is probably no surprise that Australia does not celebrate that as a nation it ruled over another people.

Suppressing criticism by resorting to a 50-year-old Jordanian law — designed to punish critics of Jordan's monarchy when it ruled over the West Bank — has not helped burnish the questionable democratic credentials Mr. Abbas so often claims when meeting Western leaders.

It tells the tale of Michael Alig, a fixture of downtown New York nightlife in the 1980's and early 90's who, as the film tells it, ruled over a chaotic, colorful cosmos before going to prison for the murder of Angel Menendez, a fellow club kid and reputed drug dealer.

It was ruled over by a series of at best eccentric, at worst paranoically violent emperors.

It is ruled over by Abbot Cellach, voiced by Brendan Gleeson, and things are shaken up with the arrival of Brother Aidan (Mick Lally) who is working on the famous Book – protecting which becomes a mission to protect the monks' beliefs and their very identity.

Beneath the clean upward trajectory of Google's success, the digital advertising industry that it has long ruled over has fallen into turmoil and rapid change.