"ruling over" is a correct and usable phrase in written English, especially in a literary context.
Example sentence: The King was ruling over his kingdom with a firm but fair hand.
One is the spectacle of infidels ruling over true believers.
They actually took turns ruling over four years.
"Satan is hereby declared powerless, no longer ruling over, nor influencing, our citizens.
Government is about making tough choices: ruling over, rather than being ruled by, vested interests.
Being ruled over by someone who maintains that he isn't ruling over you is a very surreal experience.
"They were ruling over us," he said.
Judges from tiny jurisdictions ruling over larger countries?
Interestingly, this is what the British did when they were ruling over India.
They don't accept that he was once a real king named Dharmakara, ruling over a real land somewhere.
But that is not what makes his ascension to ruling over a billion people most significant.
There were "many more" repressive regimes ruling over their people with an iron fist, he said.
