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- noun Plural form of
ruler . One who rules. - noun Plural form of
ruler . A measuring device.
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Examples
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My discomfort when I find myself identifying with terrorists and corrupt rulers is what science fiction is all about: displacement.
Archive 2009-04-01 Erika Nelson 2009
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The vaccine, says the traditional rulers, is insurance against premature death.
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My discomfort when I find myself identifying with terrorists and corrupt rulers is what science fiction is all about: displacement.
Muad'Dib's Moral Ambiguity Erika Nelson 2009
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"Faith in rulers," another source of political slack that I discuss in my book, makes immigrants more likely to simply accept whatever policies are already in place.
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More of targeted actions against rulers is the way to go boered1
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In fact, questioning our rulers is downright un-American.
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And when I call the rulers servants or ministers of the law, I give them this name not for the sake of novelty, but because I certainly believe that upon such service or ministry depends the well – or ill – being of the state.
Laws 2006
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The repertoire of methods employed to rid nations of their undemocratic or loathsome rulers is at once familiar and limited.
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But perceiving the necessity that was now upon him, and the pressure of the time, that lord and master of those we call rulers, to be inexorable, he resolved to put all to the venture.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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The classicist Sir Moses Finley has noted that what really separated the rulers from the ruled in the ancient world was literacy: the illiterate masses were subject to the elite's interpretation of documents.
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