(n.) Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.
Example Sentences:
(1) Libya’s state institutions, already plagued by decades of misrule under Italian colonialism, a monarchy, and Gaddafi’s regime, have been further eroded by four years of upheaval.
(2) The decade of misrule by Amin saw a collapse of the country and an exodus of doctors and other professions.
(3) Wood will feature in a BBC2 documentary celebrating the career of her regular on-screen collaborator Julie Walters, and the channel will also air Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule, narrated by Simon Callow, which the BBC says will feature rare and unseen archive footage of the comedian who died in June, along with contributions from actors and comedians including Simon Pegg, Lenny Henry, Ben Elton and Alexei Sayle.
(4) "The fixing of borders and the absence of debate about them has protected misrule," he said.
(5) Elsewhere, hardy perennials Beasts – directed as ever by Pappy’s lord of misrule Tom Parry – present Mr Edinburgh 2016, a sketch show masquerading as a (sports?
(6) The lords of misrule will not be overthrown by mumbling.
(7) "He was more of an old-fashioned lord of misrule than a hardened criminal.
(8) The group says there have been 50 years of misrule by the country's southern-based administration; this, and the people's distinct ethnic and cultural identity, are reasons for the need for an independent state.
(9) Many deeply unpleasant administrations around the world suddenly decided that deep-rooted domestic campaigns of Islamic militant violence were nothing to do with decades of repressive misrule and everything to do with a newly discovered, for most people, group led by Osama bin Laden.
(10) The polls - which pit Kabila against 10 rivals while more than 18,500 candidates compete for 500 seats in parliament - will test progress towards stability after decades of misrule and two wars in the last 15 years.
(11) But lest anyone forget that the misrule of Russian law applies to all, the country's main opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, faces a six-year jail sentence and a 1m rouble fine on charges that he embezzled 16m roubles worth of timber from a state firm when he was advising the governor of Kirov.
(12) Their declaration of independence cited 50 years of misrule by the country's southern-based administration and was issued by the National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad, or NMLA, whose army is led by a Tuareg colonel who fought in the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's military.
(13) It may indeed deepen the feeling among ordinary Libyans that misrule by militias must end.
(14) The elections have been presented to Malians as a way of starting afresh after 20 years of misrule and corruption, which has left the vast expanses of the north of Mali underdeveloped and prey to illicit trades, including smuggling and hostage-taking.
(15) There is another London I always knew existed, a place more familiar to my own teenage children who know its rules and misrule – the places that are dangerous, the streets to avoid.
(16) The Conservatives have done a thorough job painting the economic crisis in shades of Labour misrule.
(17) The second is provided by the police, which, while suffering a thoroughly deserved collapse in their own reputation, seeks to draw a picture of chaos and misrule that demands ever harsher and more invasive policing techniques.
(18) These two are more similar than they care to think: lords of modern misrule, without a clue about the way forward.
(19) Strangely enough, at St Paul's Cathedral this suggestion of medieval misrule has become very real as an attack on the City turned into a dissolution of the orderly facade of the Church of England.
(20) But their demands for transparent democracy, freedom of expression and an end to misrule by mullahs have not been forgotten.
Rule
Definition:
(a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket.
(a.) Uniform or established course of things.
(a.) Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.
(a.) Ordibary course of procedure; usual way; comon state or condition of things; as, it is a rule to which there are many exeptions.
(a.) Conduct in general; behavior.
(a.) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
(a.) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
(a.) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root.
(a.) A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but "man" forms its plural "men", and is an exception to the rule.
(a.) A straight strip of wood, metal, or the like, which serves as a guide in drawing a straight line; a ruler.
(a.) A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.
(a.) A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
(a.) A composing rule. See under Conposing.
(n.) To control the will and actions of; to exercise authority or dominion over; to govern; to manage.
(n.) To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive.
(n.) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
(n.) To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court.
(n.) To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.
(v. i.) To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority; -- often followed by over.
(v. i.) To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.
(v. i.) To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.
Example Sentences:
(1) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(2) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(3) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(4) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
(5) Titre in newborn was as a rule lower than the corresponding titre of mother.
(6) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
(7) The exception to this rule is a cyst which can be safely aspirated under controlled conditions.
(8) This situation should lead to discuss preventive rules.
(9) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
(10) Paul Johnson, the IFS director, said: “Osborne’s new fiscal charter is much more constraining than his previous fiscal rules.
(11) Models with a C8-symmetry and D4-symmetry can be ruled out.
(12) CEA and bacterial antigens were not detected in the material, and the presence of alpha-fetoprotein, HLA and blood-group antigens may be ruled out on account of their respective molecular weights.
(13) 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.
(14) In fact, if the roundtable operated by the rules it publishes, most of its members might have been thrown out.
(15) Injections of l-amphetamine were not effective, ruling out non-specific effects of pH, osmolarity and the like and also ruling out noradrenergic actions as explanations of the behavioral effects.
(16) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
(17) The prediction rule performed well when used on a test set of data (area, 0.76).
(18) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
(19) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
(20) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.