Parts of the Pakistani rulers regarded the Bengalis with open racist contempt.
Iran's rulers regard foreign productions on Iranian subjects – whether by émigrés or non-Iranians – with prejudice.
China believes that it has found its own model to develop and modernise, and its rulers regard the games in the same way as the Nazis and Leonid Brezhnev did, as a means of "selling" their model to a global audience.
In comparison with conventional colonists, however, the settler rulers regard the settled land as their homeland, rather than just a land with exploitable resources.
These bodies negotiated annually with the ruler regarding the amount of taxes (i.e., the contribution) that each crown land would pay to the central government.
King Mokgatle, a canny ruler regarded as the father of the nation, decided that the Bafokeng must buy farmland, with titles whites would recognize.
With no public forum for consultation and no openness about the oil wealth the ruler regards as his own family's, criticism, such as it is, gets aired in the majlis, the gatherings held by members of the ruling family in their homes.
"Emperor," performed here in English, tells of Emperor Overall, a maniacal ruler who, regarding himself as nearly divine, declares war on all of humanity and claims that Death will be his standard-bearer.
"Pashtuns are discriminated against by the rulers who regard the peripheries of the country as dispensable".
He had no sympathy for older empires, such as the Ottoman, whose rulers he regarded as corrupt oppressors.
