Sentence examples for was under the rule from inspiring English sources

"It was like the Irish winning against the British when Ireland was under the rule of Britain".

Until 1912, the country was under the rule of the Sultan of Turkey, who had no interest in schools.

During the 12th to 14th centuries, Suzdal was under the rule of a branch of the Rurik dynasty.

The land was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, and the local historians were most interested in studying their Islamic heritage.

Back around 510BC, when Rome was under the rule of the tyrannical Etruscan King Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, his son raped Lucretia, wife of a high-ranking consul.

The first documentary reference to Chișinău dates from 1466, when it was under the rule of the Moldavian prince Ștefan III.

Since its abolition, the country has been under the rule of two parties (and largely two families).

The Balkans had long been under the rule of the Ottoman empire and attitudes towards Muslims in many places are ambivalent, at best.

When the Yongzheng emperor ascended the throne, three of the Eight Banners were controlled directly by the throne, but the rest were under the rule of Qing princes.

Women in her area, she added, "are poor; they cannot make decisions; they are uneducated; they are under the rule of the man; they are property".

Actually, the people of Iraq are under the rule of a foreign superpower that has declared itself to be the absolute authority in Iraq for the foreseeable future.