Is it a throne from which a ruler utters his decrees?
What ruler ever won it like this dead President of ours?
And now, O Lord, my God, thou hast made thy servant ruler over the people.
She might become the dictatress of the world: she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.
We need not trouble ourselves about these things, nor fret ourselves because of evil doers; but safely trust the 'Ruler with his skies.
David's position as ruler over natural Israel constitutes a type of Christ's position as ruler over the spiritual Israel; and it is in this sense that Christ reigns upon the throne of his father David.
At his command the offices of religion were suspended in a nation, and its dead lay unburied, until its proud ruler humbled himself at the feet of the ecclesiastical tyrant who bore rule over the "fourth part of the earth.
This city has every reason to be grateful to the enlightened ruler of 'the sunrise kingdom.
A star is a symbol either of a civil ruler or of a religious teacher, the symbols in connection deciding whether it is set in the political or the ecclesiastical firmament.
His near-sightedness, his serious-mindedness, have militated against him, but it seems probable that he will prove the very best ruler Sweden could desire at the present juncture.
He was a ruler of benign and good disposition toward the common people, whose interests he always furthered.
The gods knew that this offspring of Loke would cause trouble; therefore they tied the Fenris-Wolf, threw the serpent into the sea, and hurled Hel down into Niflheim, where she became the ruler of the dead.
Nothing, certainly, could have been more fitting than that a ruler of Vikingland should be educated for the sea.
Aeger, the ruler of the turbulent and stormy sea, is a Yotun, but he is a friend of the gods.
May the Rulerof the universe preserve you from such degradation!
He who is equal to the task of serving a nation as her chief rulermust possess resources of a power to serve her, even against her own will.
The Supreme Ruler of the universe declares himself, in the holy Scriptures, that, in dealing with the prevarications of his chosen people, he sometimes gave them statutes which were not good.
That the Almighty Ruler of the Universe may so direct our deliberations and over-rule our acts as to make us instrumental in securing a result so dear to mankind is my most earnest and sincere prayer.
The ruler of Buayen and his sons-in-law are making war upon him, in company with a brother of that Gogo whose execution Corralat had ordered, because he had corresponded with the Spaniards at Sanboangan.
The ruler of Jolo is hostile, and Corcuera is going thither to humble the Moro's pride.
Let a ruler long enough to cover at least three dots stand for our sensible experience.
Then the conceived changes of the sensible experience can be symbolized by sliding the ruler along the line of dots.
The measure of our complainings must be fixed by discretion, which St. Anthony calls the regent and ruler of the kingdom of virtues, appointed to guard it from the encroachments of sin, ever striving to gain dominion there.
This is why the Prophet, wishing to demonstrate the power of the Messiah to bring the whole universe under the sweet yoke of obedience to Him, does not speak of Him as the Lion of the Tribe of Juda, but as the Lamb, the Ruler of the Earth.
But it is not an Irish Rome [sic] Ruler or an Irish Obstructive who has used it.
If Lord Salisbury had been a convinced Home Ruler he could not have imposed his view upon his colleagues.
The Bishop, a wise rulerof his Church, was also a passionate lover of his country: the surrender of Quebec to the English broke his heart, and he died a few months after the announcement of the final cession of the Colony.
Thou shalt fear the Great Creator, who is the overruler of all things.
So he dropped his gun, and raised a fervent prayer to the Almighty Ruler for deliverance from this awful situation.
One of these Northmen, Rurik (circa 850), established himself as the ruler of Novgorod and Kief, and laid the foundations of modern Russia.
His reputation as an enlightened ruler stood so high, that when Justinian closed the schools of Athens, the last Greek philosophers betook themselves to his court.
About this time Rurik (a Northman) became ruler of Novgorod and Kieff.
As it was, the deification of the rulerhad to provide the nexus, as in Alexander's empire.
Although Austria and Prussia were broken, Russia was still a fighting power, and the next year was devoted to this unnecessary antagonist of the French, against whom an abler and saner ruler would never have fought at all.
It was different again, as in Egypt it was different from Babylonia, but we find the same effort on the part of the ruler to break up tradition because it divides up the people.
The citizen served as warrior in youth, ruler in his maturity, priest in his old age.
By one of those accidents in history that personify and precipitate catastrophes, the ruler of Germany, the emperor William II, embodied the new education of his people and the Hohenzollern tradition in the completest form.
In the first history that we can clearly decipher we find already in all the civilized regions a distinction between a non-working ruler class and the working mass of the population.
She had decided that the earth was the very centre of God's creation, and that the Pope was the divinely appointed ruler of the earth.
I will not live the life I have been leading; careless and thoughtless; I will be the servant of this Ruler whom hitherto I have disregarded.
One of the staff called the attention of Than Kosis to the presence of my companion above them and the ruler motioned for him to descend.
My only duty was to guard the ruler and keep out of sight as much as possible.
He entirely omitted the usual formal salutation as we entered the presence of the jeddak, and as he pushed me roughly before the ruler he exclaimed in a loud and menacing voice.
The rulerwas engaged in conversation with his son, Sab Than, and several courtiers of his household, and did not perceive my entrance.
That our ruler should have attacked the disabled fleet as it was returning to Helium was but another of his awful blunders which I fear will sooner or later compel Zodanga to elevate a wiser man to his place.
He was an almost perfect specimen of manhood; tall, straight as an arrow, superbly muscled and with the carriage and bearing of a ruler of men.
Three days later he walked without assistance to the body of Bar Comas which, by custom, had not been moved from where it fell, and placing his foot upon the neck of his erstwhile ruler he assumed the title of Jeddak of Warhoon.
The chieftain rose to his feet and uttered the name of my escort who, in turn, halted and repeated the name of the rulerfollowed by his title.
But the good sense of the German people would not suffer their ruler to place them in a position so false and so untenable.
And a tyrant he defines as "any ruler who despises the common good, and seeks his private advantage.
The general consequence which St. Thomas draws from this doctrine is, that, "if a ruler governs a multitude of freemen for the common good of the multitude, the government will be good and just as becomes freemen.
This first Scandinavian ruler could begin that policy only by establishing his countrymen in Dublin, which they seized in 836.
The capteins of the one fleet was William lord Pomiers, and of the other sir Peter Bressie, a great ruler in Normandie.
The sultan, having alienated most of his powers and prerogatives to his relatives, passed his life in religious seclusion and wasruler in no more than name.
The ruler and his people were converted to Islam in the 15th century.
The ruler holds the rank of sultan and is assisted in the government by a council and by the British adviser who since the state passed from Siamese to British protection in 1909, has replaced the officer formerly appointed by Siam.
According to native tradition, the ruling house of Selangor is descended from a Bugis raja, who, with two of his brothers, settled in the state in 1718, the son of the youngest brother eventually becoming ruler of the country.
Naturally the formal distinction is a later theorizing of history; for a weak rulerhis vizier became absolute, for a strong ruler his vizier remained subordinate.
He must, we are told, have a strain of the ruler in him and a strain of the people to be able to work with both.
The Oriental ruler must rule and judge on his own initiative, and the schools of canon law tended to reduce everything to an academic fixedness.
What is more certain is the tradition that Perak was twice invaded by the Achinese, and its rulers carried off into captivity, one of them, Sultan Mansur Shah, subsequently becoming the ruler of Achin.
But one duty of an Oriental ruler he could not so easily lay aside.
You may be the staff in his old age to the ruler of France.
I looked around the court and saw the beavy of radiantly beauteous noble girls; were I the ruler of France, the choice would not be difficult to make.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
