Sentence examples for ruler itself from inspiring English sources

In effect, therefore, the SEM can be seen as a fundamental property of the ruler itself, rather than of a ruler in relation to the heights of the people who are being measured.

The House of Hapsburg believed itself dynastic ruler of Europe but was rarely accepted as such.

Although in theory dedicated to trading by sea, the company gradually acquired vast areas of territory in Asia and found itself the ruler of a sixth of humanity.

The letter notes the audacity of "a group of no more than several thousand appoint[ing] itself the ruler over a billion-and-a half Muslims".

If this is the case, then a group of no more than several thousand has appointed itself the ruler of over a billion and a half Muslims.

But in the Middle East, the legacy of colonialism is still keenly felt, the Iraq war remains a source of widespread anger, and the US is widely held to be hypocritical for working closely with authoritarian Arab rulers while styling itself as a force for democracy in the world.

Javanese influence in the archipelago, however, depended on the ruler's authority in Java itself.

The first is by the pre-Islamic poet al-Nābighah addressing his ruler: You are the sun itself, other monarchs are stars.

IS sees itself as the rightful ruler of all Muslims.

And it isn't only Prussia's greatest ruler getting a new gloss, but Prussia itself.

His son, Mīr Maḥmūd, first attacked Kermān in Iran and then, in 1722, took the Ṣafavid capital Eṣfahān itself and proclaimed himself its ruler.