Sentence examples for ruler himself from inspiring English sources

Many election monitors regarded the remarks of the general, a former military ruler himself, as inflammatory.

The royal flag, however, had all the attributes of kingship, being identified with the ruler himself and treated with a similar respect.

This explains certain mysterious African royal rituals where the future king must commit forbidden sexual acts or violent crimes: the ruler himself is being set up as a scapegoat who must appear "worthy" of punishment.

In the mid-18th century a great part of the holdings of the Gaekwads was described in the peshwa's correspondence and papers as saranjam (nonhereditary grants to maintain troops), and the ruler himself was termed saranjamdar, or at times jāgīrdār.

He was then appointed minister of interior and of war in the first sovereign government of Albania under Prince William of Wied, where he intrigued against the government with an eye to becoming ruler himself.

The Chahār maqāleh ("Four Discourses") by Niẓāmī ʿArūẕī focuses not on the ruler himself but on four important functionaries at court: the secretary, the poet, the doctor, and the astrologer.

Pakistan's present military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, himself a child of partition, calls India "the arch-enemy".

The ruler styled himself "emperor" and used his own calendar, established on the model of Han China.

Much of Africa is ruled more by rainfall than politics.Shell statesThe African ruler finds himself trapped.

In the prologue the Hittite ruler described himself as "the great king," the one granting the treaty.

After Torrijos's death in a mysterious plane crash in 1981, Noriega consolidated his power, becoming Panama's de facto ruler, promoting himself to full general in 1983.