(1) Speculation about a shift in power at the top focuses on Kim's sons – and on his apparent wish to secure a third-generation dynastic succession.
(2) Wolff suggested the world was witnessing the end of the Murdochs' dynastic ambitions.
(3) Bush immediately distanced himself from his father and brother’s time in the White House, seeking to counter criticism that his return would symbolise Washington’s dynastic capture.
(4) They chose a change from the dynastic regime that has ruled our country since 1967,” Ping wrote.
(5) Indeed, in the modern context, it is not hard to see how a crashed financial market might be viewed as a powerful suggestion that party leaders are losing heaven’s favour and their own legitimacy, and, worse, that a new dynastic cycle may be in the offing.
(6) The tombs of the Dukes of Brabant were not concentrated in one dynastic necropolis, but located as well in abbeys (Affligem and Villers-la-Ville) as in churches belonging to cloisters or chapters, in Louvain and Brussels, the two towns successively used as the ducal residence.
(7) As Greece descended into economic crisis, there were almost no signs that the young ideologue, an ardent admirer of Ernesto “Che” Guevara – he named the youngest of his two sons after the Argentinian Marxist revolutionary – would emerge as the wild card to challenge Europe or Athens’ own dynastic politics and vested interests.
(8) Bush struggles as Clinton shines in dynastic battle for the White House Read more “I’m putting the Beltway on notice.
(9) A dynastic battle for the White House has never seemed less likely.
(10) It is written by Bruce Wagner (author of the excoriating I'm Losing You) and all about a dynastic Hollywood family, deeply embedded and dysfunctionally addicted to the culture of celebrity in Los Angeles.
(11) These marriages might be celibate, or dynastic formalities for the production of a new generation, while allowing for outside interests: Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West are a case in point.
(12) But New England is overflowing with enough dynastic ambition right now to make even scions of the gilded age blush.
(13) Bush struggles as Clinton shines in dynastic battle for the White House Read more “I don’t think he has the infrastructure,” McLinden said of Rubio, though he did note that the Florida senator “gives a great speech.” After Rubio’s speech at the fairgrounds on Saturday, he was received like a rock star … or at the very least like Donald Trump, surrounded by reporters, fans and even professional autograph seekers, sensing a good investment.
(14) The Maldives has all sorts of political woes but dynastic rule is not one of them.
(15) But constraints from Brussels and "expert" ideological agreement mean that, despite rhetorical hyperbole, the two dynastic heirs will deliver fiscal tightening or monetary liquidity in exactly the same way.
(16) In Greece, the absence of ideological differences means that dynastic provenance, the latest corruption scandal or the prospect of getting a job for the unemployed son or daughter decides elections.
(17) Why are dynastic politics so tenacious on the subcontinent?
(18) Kim, who had been living in exile with his family in Macau under Chinese protection, had spoken publicly in the past against his family’s dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed state.
(19) And yet some people find North Korea and its dynastic trio of Kims, well, funny.
(20) But Paul, the son of libertarian candidate Ron Paul, is hardly without dynastic pretensions of his own.
Ruler
Definition:
(n.) One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor.
(n.) A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a).
Example Sentences:
(1) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(2) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
(3) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
(4) Fail, and the nation’s rulers face embarrassment in front of a television audience of more than a billion.
(5) The former military ruler won the key prize of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, but at one point his lead was cut to 500,000 votes after landslide victories for Jonathan in his southern Delta homeland.
(6) The ruler is especially helpful when one is doing large recessions and posterior fixation of the recti muscles (Faden operation).
(7) While Egypt's military rulers were quick to blame football hooliganism, a group of hardline Al Ahly fans, known as ultras, accused the police of intentionally letting rivals attack them because of their historic antipathy to the security forces and their role at the forefront of anti-Mubarak protests a year ago.
(8) What was it that so alarmed Brazil's military rulers, and why, 40 years on, does Tropicália still inspire as well as provoke?
(9) Throughout ancient Egyptian history, rulers changed capitals to enforce a sense of national renewal or unity – a trend that began with the first purpose-built capital of a united Egypt , some 5,000 years ago.
(10) This civilisation was later cross-fertilised by new influences brought by the Kushans who succeeded the Bactrian Greeks as rulers of Afghanistan, while adopting much of their culture.
(11) But the SNP has plenty to learn from the home rulers at Westminster.
(12) The one thing romantics have to remember is that though you might well try to stop your daughter getting mixed up with one, there is no necessary connection between being a good ruler and being a loving and faithful mate.
(13) Using the technique and the ruler described by Schei et al., the radiographic height of the alveolar crest from the cemento-enamel junction was determined.
(14) Quantitative analysis of the density data is consistent with the presence of up to six strands of a protein molecule in the central channel that could serve as the template or ruler structure that determines the length of the bacteriophage tail and that could be injected into the cell with the phage DNA.
(15) Meles Zenawi , the cerebral ruler of Ethiopia for the last 21 years, is a man with many reputations.
(16) In that same 2010 fundraiser speech, Perry described his mission as "bigger than any law or policy," of being engaged in a struggle not of "flesh and blood," but "against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms".
(17) Abdul Halim, who was installed as ruler of his state in 1958, has been described by his family as a caring leader and a fan of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Nat King Cole.
(18) A poor citizen can’t even find one kilogramme of rice on the street,” he said, arguing that the country’s rulers would face divine judgment for what they were doing to the poor.
(19) Diplomatic tensions also intensified with Bahrain recalling its ambassador to Tehran, following the Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar's warning on Monday that Bahrain's rulers and the Gulf states who have sent troops to the kingdom needed to act with "wisdom and caution".
(20) Mugabe’s officials have repeatedly accused the US of seeking regime change, a common charge levelled by rulers across the continent.