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  • noun Plural form of rulership.

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Examples

  • Rowling apparently a friend of British Prime minister Gordon Brown is reported as giving £1 million to the ruling Labour Party, which, like the rulerships of most Western countries, is a big promoter of the abortion holocaust – so much for Rowling/Potter being involved in the fight against evil.

    Harry Potter does not get a medal « Anglican Samizdat 2009

  • The following diagram explains the logic of traditional rulerships before the discovery of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto respectively in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

    Astrology for Enlightenment Michelle Karén 2008

  • As is the case with many dual rulerships, a relationship that starts with a bang can deteriorate into a whimper.

    Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994

  • As is the case with many dual rulerships, a relationship that starts with a bang can deteriorate into a whimper.

    Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994

  • As is the case with many dual rulerships, a relationship that starts with a bang can deteriorate into a whimper.

    Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994

  • As is the case with many dual rulerships, a relationship that starts with a bang can deteriorate into a whimper.

    Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994

  • "Is the Federation dispensing rulerships these days?"

    The Fate of the Phoenix Culbreath, Myrna 1979

  • These are only a few of the small rulerships, which are every day multiplied as the State records of the neighbouring countries are being more and more carefully investigated.

    Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson

  • But the tide of Mohammedanism reached its limit in India; the people, though conquered, were but partly converted, and eastward of India there have been no important Mohammedan rulerships.

    Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873

  • The Marathas and the Sikhs founded the only rulerships whose armies could give the English serious trouble in the field during the nineteenth century.

    Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873

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