Sentence examples for shadow ruler from inspiring English sources

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The Motion Picture Export Association of America is the shadow ruler of the French film industry, for it is, ultimately, the dog that guards the American film market.

Although he holds no political office, he is widely considered to be a shadow ruler behind his close ally, Abdullah Gul, who currently holds the prime minister's post.

TV-6 is largely owned by Boris Berezovsky, a notorious Russian tycoon who became a shadow ruler during the administration of President Boris N. Yeltsin and who sought to establish an opposition political party under Mr. Putin.

In Crown Heights, my Trinidadian neighborhood in Brooklyn, immigrants who left the island decades ago still speak of him in hushed tones, as if he is the shadow ruler of the entire country.

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And according to a ProPublica investigation, the VA is being overseen by a troika of "shadow rulers" who aren't officially in government but instead are some of Trump's Mar-a-Lago buddies.

Almost new in this update are new resizable layout which can adapt to different screen sized, rulers and guides, shadow effects and enhanced text features.

"I am Sultan Süleyman, Sultan of Sultans, Ruler of Rulers, earthly shadow of Him who crowns sovereigns," the letter begins, "Ruler of the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Rumelia, Anatolia, Karaman, Greece, Dulkadir, Diyarbakir, Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, Damascus, Aleppo, Egypt, Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, all the Arab realms, Yemen, and many other lands.

Soon, however, the sultan (ruler) was declared to be "shadow of God on earth".

Little hard evidence has yet emerged to refute this claim.The whittling away of the Saddam clan may lighten the shadow of fear that Iraq's former ruler still casts across the country.

In this way, the army set off an armed insurrection by groups of Islamic radicals that has yet to be totally extinguished.Controlling political power from the shadows, Algeria's military rulers have spent the past 12 years doing all they can to obliterate all memory of the FIS.

Tahrir represents an argument against Egypt's own history of minor, child rulers whose shadows fill its valleys and khans, eternity still haunting the former kingdom, but more inscrutable than ever.

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