(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.
Shepherd
Definition:
(n.) A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.
(n.) The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others.
(v. t.) To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd.
Example Sentences:
(1) Menstrual characteristics of 2,343 women attending the Shepherd Foundation Health Testing Centre have been analyzed utilizing a computer system of data analysis.
(2) Children are stoned going to school and Palestinian shepherds and farmers are common targets for violence.
(3) Calling London … Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL at Shepherd's Bush Empire Fresh from his Valentine's night double-header of shows at King's Place, beneath the Guardian's offices in north London, Prince has announced his Sunday night appearance at Koko in Camden Town will take the form of three separate gigs.
(4) The highest seropositive reaction rate (6.1%) was obtained during examination of shepherds.
(5) Reith, “his dour handsome face scarred like that of a villain in a melodrama”, was “a strange shepherd for such a mixed, bohemian flock … he had under his aegis a bevy of ex-soldiers, ex-actors, ex-adventurers which … even a Dartmoor prison governor might have had difficulty in controlling”.
(6) Reinforced polyethylene or polyurethane catheters in the shape of a "Shepherd Crook" have led to improve selective and superselective catheterization of visceral arteries.
(7) Breed predispositions were not documented, although four patients were German Shepherd dogs.
(8) The restenosis rate was 18% in the shepherd's crook group and 21% in the control group; repeat PTCA (14% v 15%) and bypass surgery (2% v 6%) rates were also similar in both groups.
(9) Japan has recalled its whaling fleet from the Antarctic following confrontations with activists from the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group, the government has said, in a move that has raised hopes that the hunts will be halted altogether.
(10) Twenty-three puppies with cranofacial and limb abnormalities from a family of Australian shepherd dogs were studied anatomically.
(11) The Shonan Maru No 2 tailed the Bob Barker, a Sea Shepherd vessel, for two days earlier this week, according to the group.
(12) Eight German Shepherd pups, about 75 days old and a live weight of 11 kg at the beginning of the trial, were used to assay a diet formulated according to NRC, 1985 (Nutrient Requirements of Dogs).
(13) There are tales of hotel chambermaids and shepherds being told to pack their bags, and then come back as hired guns to grab work as and when their former employers require it.
(14) Neuroepitheliomas were in three German shepherds as intradural-extramedullary solitary masses, with spinal cord displacement between T10 and L2.
(15) Australia's former environment minister, Ian Campbell, told Australian television from aboard a Sea Shepherd vessel that the group would "have to get organised to go out to the oceans and save the whales off South Korea".
(16) "I'm reminded of the David Sedaris story about his parents' getting a replacement German Shepherd when their first, Maedchen, dies: "Maedchen was hit and killed by a car.
(17) The Institute of Cetacean Research blamed low demand on the complicated auction procedure and reluctance among food suppliers to attract criticism from anti-whaling groups such as Sea Shepherd .
(18) A colony of German shepherd dogs was studied in which a high proportion of antinuclear antibody (ANAb) carriers and dogs with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)-like signs were found.
(19) Skin reaction patterns to the intradermal injection of a whole-body flea extract were examined in five physically healthy dogs and in 24 dogs with German Shepherd dog Pyoderma (GSP) at 15 and 30 minutes and at 1, 2, 4, 8, 24, 48 and 72 hours after the injection.
(20) 7.58am BST Jessica Shepherd, from the Guardian's newsdesk, says surprisingly prestigious courses still have vacancies.