Sentence examples for ruler against from inspiring English sources

In that sense, the ruler against which the Passport is generally being measured simply isn't appropriate.

The 1982 massacre is regarded as the single bloodiest assault by an Arab ruler against his own people in modern times and remains a pivotal event in Syrian history.

In the end I hit on the simple if deranging idea of laying a 12in ruler against a Google Earth satellite photograph of the desert on my computer screen.

He smoked a pipe and slapped a steel ruler against his hand.

The Muslim merchants believed that they were about to lose both their trading opportunities and livelihoods, and attempted to sway the Hindu ruler against the Portuguese.

I was ten years old when it happened, a fifth grade pupil at St. Cecilia's in Northeast Philadelphia, when Sister Mary Charles Marita, a taskmaster who would smack her steel ruler against the plaster walls and sometimes against the knuckles of those unlucky enough to warrant her discipline, quietly and out of character explained to us that we were going home early that day.

Saudi Arabia sent troops into Bahrain last year to back the gulf state's Sunni Muslim rulers against Shiite-led protesters.

(India was the exception, where the British East India Company exploited an anarchic situation and allied itself with selected native rulers against others).

Magnus died in a campaign launched by the co-rulers against Denmark in 1047, aborting his plans to claim the English throne.

But the Saudis backed Zaidi rulers against a military rebellion in the 1960s, and have since the 1990s supported two Zaidi presidents, first Ali Abdullah Saleh and then Hadi.

"We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over the present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places," he said, reading from Ephesians 6 12-18.