André Kolingba, a former military ruler believed to be behind the coup attempt, told Radio France International that he had asked the soldiers to return to their barracks.
I'm Russian myself, and I don't want to offend the Russians.. Khrushchev attributed his recall to Moscow to mental disorder on the part of Stalin, who feared conspiracies in Moscow matching those which the ruler believed to have occurred in the fabricated Leningrad case, in which many of that city's Party officials had been falsely accused of treason.
In the Letter Concerning Toleration, Locke denied that coercion should be used to bring people to (what the ruler believes is) the true religion and also denied that churches should have any coercive power over their members.
Saudi's new rulers believe such rigid societal norms, enforced by clerics, could prove fodder for extremists who tap into such feelings of frustration.
Saudi rulers believe that Obama has shifted US foreign policy to be more friendly toward Iran, especially after his administration expended considerable political capital to reach a nuclear deal with Tehran last summer.
The former Liberal Democrat leader, who succeeded Kennedy in 2006, described Kennedy as a "classic Liberal home ruler" who believed Scotland should remain within a federal UK.
Libyans who until a few weeks earlier had coexisted peacefully, if resentfully, with their ruler now believed him capable of any evil.
The first king has been regarded as a god and his successors as sons of the god in a number of societies in Africa, Polynesia, Japan (where the emperor, until the end of World War II, was revered as a descendant of the sun goddess), Peru (where the inca, or ruler, was believed to be a descendant of the sun god), Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Canaan.
Prahlad's father was a megalomaniac ruler who believed in his own divinity and was furious that his own son refused to acknowledge this.
This is indeed what Chinese rulers have believed for thousands of years, drawing support from some highly abstract ideas expressed in Confucian philosophy.
For years, Mr. Simpson said in a radio report on his return from Tehran, Iran's Islamic rulers have believed the BBC was part of a wider British attempt to manipulate events in the country.
