Sentence examples for rule to himself from inspiring English sources

"What [Sepp] Blatter does and what he doesn't do seems to be a rule to himself.

"This is the first time Musharraf has brought in military rule to sustain himself in power," he said.

At the same time, he had a notably successful term, using his authority under the court's rules to assign himself to write the majority opinion in cases in which the chief justice was in dissent.

He was subsequently ruled to have killed himself.

Malamir was the youngest son of Omurtag and must have been considered too young to rule by himself, so that a regent had to be appointed.

A gambling addict who tried to get himself banned from betting shops has called for stricter rules to stop compulsive gamblers like himself from placing bets.

The shadow chancellor, having made it a rule not to commit himself to any spending, could not promise that a Labour government would actually introduce it.

A man who indulged in excessive eating, drinking, sleeping or sex — who failed to "rule himself" — was considered unfit to rule his household, much less a polity.

He was forced to rule himself out of the race to be Labour leader following a social media campaign urging him to stand.

She was not strictly entitled to a role in Francis's government, because he was deemed old enough to rule for himself.

Kant writes that virtue "contains a positive command to a man, namely to bring all his capacities and inclinations under his (reason's) control and so to rule over himself … for unless reason holds the reins of government in its own hands, man's feelings and inclinations play the master over him" (Kant, Metaphysics of Morals, Ak. 408).