Sentence examples for ruler alone from inspiring English sources

He worked to abolish the feudal system and create a new nobility of merit, dependent on the ruler alone.

At the same time, the regency's alliance with Dushan was paying dividends for the Serbian ruler alone, as he had free rein to plunder and occupy all of Macedonia and Epirus.

It would acknowledge that peace with Arab rulers alone could never last, that one day Israel will have to make peace with the peoples it lives among.

Once the ruler is alone at the top of the power pyramid, problems can be identified as coming only from external plots – because, in this vision, the leader is "the people".

The true law of nature is self-preservation, he argues, which can be achieved only if the citizens make a compact among themselves to transfer their individual power to the "leviathan" (ruler), who alone can preserve them in security.

Henry was also shown in the poetry of his Italian contemporary Dante, who depicted Henry in the Divine Comedy as an example of a negligent ruler, sitting alone in Purgatory to one side of the other failed kings.

Prior to the ascendancy to the Royal throne after the death of Akihito's father, Emperor Hirohito, the notion that commoners would ever have had a view of the Japanese ruler, let alone sit with him and his wife 60 years later and have a conversation with the God-like figure would have been unthinkable.

The new British rulers left alone much of the religious, political, and social culture of the French-speaking habitants, guaranteeing through the Quebec Act of 1774 the right of the Canadiens to practise the Catholic faith and to use French civil law (now Quebec law).

CHINA'S e-commerce giant could generate enormous wealth provided the country's rulers leave it alone.

Perhaps the only thing uniting strands of opinion over Syria is the knowledge that bombing the rulers of Raqqa alone will not end the crisis.

Ruled by a wealthy and ambitious family, the al-Maktoums, it makes no secret of its wish to become the main financial centre between Europe and Asia.Dubai and its rulers are not alone.