Sentence examples for ruled for over from inspiring English sources

Charles I dissolved parliament in 1629 and ruled for over a decade parliament's approval.

Bhopal in colonial India is best known for having been ruled for?? over a hundred years from 1819 to 1926 by a lineage of four Muslim women.

Rome's first emperor ruled for over 40 years, establishing a quasi-monarchic system (in place of the fading Republic) which lasted for centuries.

Even the food, shrouded in gelatine, mayonnaise and dill, recalls the canteens and mess-halls of an earlier age.Alexander Lukashenko, the mustachioed strongman who has ruled for over 20 years, will undoubtedly win a fifth term in November's presidential election.

Congress and its ally won 25 of West Bengal's 42 seats, and are now hoping to wrest control of a state the leftists have ruled for over three decades.

After his return home, Seretse Khama was duly elected first democratic head of the newly created nation state of Botswana, which he ruled for over 20 years before his death from cancer in 1980.

The Clinton administration also provided over $137 million annually to Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi who was heralded as part of a "new wave of democracy in Africa," though he jailed political opopnents and went on to rule for over twenty years.

Josef Stalin installed Kim Il Sung as North Korea's leader -- Kim went on to rule for over 50 years before being replaced by his son, Kim Jong Il, and later his grandson, current Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.

This silence is but a small part of the tacit agreement between China's rulers and its ruled for prosperity over democracy -- an agreement signed in blood on the night on June the 4th , 1989

Finally, there's the expected winner, Enrique Peña Nieto, young and boyish looking, with an unmovable hairdo and a soap-opera-star wife, running for the PRI, the authoritarian party that ruled Mexico for over 72 years.

Mr Gayoom - who ruled for 30 years - handed over the reins in 2008, when he was challenged at the polls.