Sentence examples for outside ruler from inspiring English sources

Following a Napoleonic interlude, Leopold II of Habsburg was the last outside ruler (1824 59).

The Jews wanted a homeland free of outside ruler and were willing to pick up arms in self-defense.

A group of women led by women's rights activist Funmilayo Anikulapo-Kuti (mother of musician Fela Kuti) gathered outside the reigning ruler's house to protest against women having to pay taxes when they did not even have the right to vote.

But with no ties to rulers outside the Saudi royal family, they must satisfy themselves with smaller projects.

He was forced therefore to seek a co-ruler from outside his family and that co-ruler had to be someone he trusted.

In a demonstration of the kind of zero-tolerance policing of modern criminality that will no doubt impress Iran's morals police as much as Egypt's military rulers, officers outside London announced on Monday that they had arrested a man for sending text messages encouraging people to take part in a mass water fight.

These meetings were also attended by rulers from outside his territory, especially Welsh kings, who thus acknowledged his overlordship.

Whereas the outside world regards China's rulers as all-powerful, the rulers themselves detect threats at every turn.

Ghaznavid "political theory" shared with other states the concept of the circle of justice or circle of power i.e., that justice is best preserved by an absolute monarch completely outside society; that such a ruler needs an absolutely loyal army; and that maintaining such an army requires prosperity, which in turn depends on the good management of an absolute ruler.

And he explains how Nepal became increasingly exposed to outside influences that shaped its rulers' tastes and heightened restlessness, even if acquiring automobiles in this remote region once meant having Rolls-Royces and Cadillacs carried by porters over two mountain ranges to reach Kathmandu.

He served as the regime's foreign minister and was often the only point of contact between Cambodia's rulers and the outside world.