Sentence examples for ruling through from inspiring English sources

was the very embodiment of machismo, ruling through arbitrariness, authoritarianism, and the permanent threat of violence against the weak.

Mr. Erdogan is a democrat only in the sense that he believes in ruling through popularly elected governments.

The coalition has worked harder to protect this imbalance than anyone could have imagined, ruling through deception and fear.

He was responsible for delineating reserves for Africans, for introducing the hut tax (1849), and for ruling through chiefs loyal to himself.

"Nicaraguans call this Somocismo without Somoza," Mr. Callahan said, using a term that refers to Somoza's style of ruling through favoritism.

Opponents of giving gay couples the protections, dignity and respect that come with marriage are working furiously to try to overturn the court ruling through Proposition 8.

Throughout the 1980s Noriega manipulated elections, ruling Panama through presidents who were mostly mere puppets.

Never in history has a government succeeded in ruling permanently through authoritarian measures.

A congressional act also stops America financing Zimbabwean government bodies and companies deemed close to Mr Mugabe's ruling party through the World Bank and other institutions.

When not actually residing in Paris and ruling Venezuela through a puppet president, Guzmán Blanco was busily trying to make Caracas a replica of the French capital.

Mr. Kadyrov has long been accused of human rights abuses and of ruling Chechnya through patterns of organized sadism and fear.