Sentence examples for ruler at the time from inspiring English sources

Pakistan's military ruler at the time, Pervez Musharraf, saw the folly of defying an American ultimatum.

Mr. Thieu's older brothers helped put him through schools run by France, Vietnam's colonial ruler at the time.

We meet Driss Benzekri, who languished in prison for 17 years for defying the ruler at the time, King Hassan II.

Back in 1995, Bill Clinton's White House eulogised President Suharto, Indonesia's military ruler at the time, by describing him as "our kind of guy".

Instead of studying overseas like others in his predicament, Mr. Lee wrote a letter to President Park Chung-hee, the military ruler at the time.

The military ruler at the time, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, has so far refused to appear before a human rights panel investigating the case.

Damaged by lightning and earthquakes in the 14th and 15th centuries, the tower was rebuilt and repaired by local rulers at the time.

The Sorok leper colony was founded here in 1916 by the Japanese, Korea's colonial rulers at the time, and life has seemingly stood still ever since.

Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1984 for campaigning against South Africa's white rulers at the time of apartheid.

"What we are doing on Iraq is absolutely essential," Mr. Blair said, listing the Iraqi leader's killing of his own Kurdish citizens, his 1980-88 withwIranIrandand his invasion of Kuwait as evidence that Mr. Hussein is "probably the most dangerous ruler at the present time anywhere in the world".

A charter of 836 has also been cited as evidence that Wiglaf was acting as an independent ruler at that time; it records a council at Croft, in Leicestershire, attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury and eleven bishops, including some from West Saxon sees.