Words similar to ruler

Example sentences for: ruler

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The film opens in Africa, where the husband of Shandurai (Thandie Newton) is seized by soldiers for insolence toward the country's authoritarian ruler.
One could stop well short of anything as elaborate as the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's old tag line ("King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah") or the array of distinctions paraded by the young ruler in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief (a proclamation begins, "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Lord of Wanda, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University ..."
Stories about him indicate that he was an earthly hero, a light-skinned man, who acted as the ruler of the Toltecs for some time.
His heir, Humayun, preferred opium and astrology to complex State affairs; he was driven out of India into Persia by General Sher Shah, who proved to be a much more able ruler.
To this end they invaded Spain itself and even reached up into France until they were beaten by the Frankish ruler Charles Martel in 732.