Sentence examples for ruling himself from inspiring English sources

In the meantime, ruling himself out as a candidate only enhances his credibility as a national reformer.

Within three hours Boris Johnson shocked everyone by ruling himself out of the race.

We're guessing that's his way of ruling himself out of contention for the Sunderland job.

Del Toro follows JJ Abrams, Steven Spielberg and Brad Bird in ruling himself out.

General Manager Mike Holmgren created the day's awkward moment by almost definitively/sort of/perhaps/most likely ruling himself out as the Browns' next coach.

Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho has admitted it is unlikely he will take temporary charge of Portugal - but stopped short of ruling himself out entirely.

The French foreign minister Vergennes, who knew him, described Charles Theodore's foibles more forcefully: Although by nature intelligent, he [Charles Theodore] has never succeeded in ruling by himself; he has always been governed by his ministers or by his father-confessor or (for a time) by the electress [his wife].

9. James Callaghan in 1977 accepted a Commons recommendation to take all questions himself, ruling out ministers.

Having led the Bolivian street for the past decade, Mr Morales now finds himself ruling at its mercy.

But the pharmacists' monopoly remains with Mr Sarkozy himself ruling out any change on the ground that pharmacies are not a business but a "public service".

Voting continues until early March.See article: Bombs at the Indian electionFacing imminent arrest in a stock scandal, Shokei Arai, a member of Japan's ruling LDP, hanged himself.