Word Finder - ruled

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To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.

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To excel.

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This game rules!

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To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).

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To decide judicially.

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To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.

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To revel.

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Having printed lines.

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a letter on ruled paper

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(of a surface) Being a scroll; being such that through every point of S there is a straight line that lies on S.

I ruled Death's domain for countless millennia.

In my dream … the aliens … took me … to a planet ruled by spiders!

His descendants were weak men and they too ruled France badly.

Now that she was gone, she only ruled his life if he allowed her.

Connecticut and Rhode Island were ruled out and we began to concentrate on New Hampshire.

It was the Deidre, the deity who ruled over Death's domain before turning it over to Gabriel.

Here was nestled the town site of Ironton, a bustling community in the last-century days when silver and gold ruled the area.

If he wanted, he could've ruled the earth by now.

In 1283 his father entrusted him with their sole government, and he appears to have ruled them with conspicuous success.

For the next ten years Baldwin ruled his principality with success, if not without severity.

Though Conrad was almost immediately assassinated, the crown did not 1 A branch of the line continued in Poitou during the 13th century, and ruled in LaMarche till 1303.

Among the most famous members of the house who ruled in Cyprus three may be mentioned.

Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island.

In the days that followed, the shooting was ruled justified and Lydia Larkin was cleared of any wrongdoing.

From this point, Xander was able to see most of the city, including the white dome of the palace at its center that marked the home of one of the three Gods that ruled the immortal realm.

Until very recently, our world was ruled by kings.

Curiously, Buddhism itself is ruled by the ghost or shadowy remainder of belief in transmigration - Karma.

Bavaria has been ruled by the Wittelsbachs.

Lower Bavaria was ruled by the descendants of Henry I.

The affairs of a tribe were ruled by a council of men past middle age.

The first British governors at Sydney, from 1788, ruled with despotic power.

For five years these high wages ruled; but in 1886 there was a sharp fall, though wages still remained very good.

Chief of these were the Rahtors, who ruled at Kanauj; the Chauhans of Ajmere; the Solankis of Anhilwara, in Gujarat; the Gehlots with the Sisodhyias sept, still in Mewar or Udaipur; and the Kachwaha clan, still in Jaipur.

The marriage contract, without which the Code ruled that the woman was no wife, usually stated the consequences to which each party was liable for repudiating the other.

During the later part of the Stiirgkh Ministry it is no longer possible to speak of an internal policy, for the military alone ruled.

From 548 the Alamanni were ruled by a succession of dukes who soon made themselves independent; and in 555 a duke of the Bavarians, who exercised his authority without regard for the Frankish supremacy, is first mentioned.

While kings claimed they ruled by a divine right, dictators claimed their right to rule through might.

Once this became known, the question was submitted for arbitration to the king of the Netherlands, who ruled the St. John River to be the border.

They described the activity of individuals who ruled the people, and regarded the activity of those men as representing the activity of the whole nation.

The Dark One that ruled Hell since the time-before-time had fallen to a ruthless demon lord whose goal had long been to take over the mortal realm.

You could've ruled the underworld at my side, Gabriel.

The northern portion of the "kingdom of Albania," including Durazzo and Kroia, was ruled by the family of Thopia (1359-1392) and afterwards by that of Kastriota, to which Scanderbeg belonged; the southern portion with Berat, by the Musaki (1368-1476).

The low quotations which ruled for a number Copper of years had a depressing effect upon the industry, and many mines once profitably worked were temporarily closed, but in 1906 there was a general revival.

He punished the rebellious clergy severely, and ruled the church with an absolute hand till his departure from England in 1218.

The Breisgau, originally a pagus or gau of the Frankish empire, was ruled during the middle ages by hereditary counts.

At its close the provinces of Italy were placed beneath Greek dukes, controlled by a governor-general, entitled exarch, who ruled in the Byzantine emperors name at Ravenna.

In 890 they established themselves again at Ban, and ruled the Theme of Lombardy by means of an officer entitled Catapan.

And Venice was ruled by a close oligarchy; Florence was passing from the hands of her oligarchs into the power of the Medicean merchants.

The Medici became yearly more indispensable to Florence, the Bentivogli more autocratic in Bologna, the Baglioni in Perugia; and even Siena was ruled by the Petrucci.

At this crisis she was ruled by the monk Girolamo Savonarola, who inspired the people with a thirst for freedom, preached the necessity of reformation, and placed himself in direct antagonism to Rome.

He already wore the crown of the Two Sicilies, and ruled the duchy of Milan.

In the pontificate of Clement XIII they ruled the Vatican, and almost succeeded in embroiling the pope with the concerted Bourbon potentates of Europe.

Of the nominally independent states the chief were the kingdom of Sardinia, ruled over by the house of Savoy, and comprising Piedmont, the isle of Sardinia and nominally Savoy and Nice, though the two provinces last named had virtually been lost to the monarchy since the campaign of 1793.

Not only did she govern Lombardy and Venetia directly, but Austrian princes ruled in Modena, Parma and Tuscany; Piacenza, Ferrara and Comacchio had Austrian garrisons; Prince Metternich, the Austrian chancellor, believed that he could always secure the election of an Austrophil pope, and Ferdinand of Naples, reinstated by an Austrian army, had bound himself, by a secret article of the treaty of June 12, 1815, not to introduce methods of government incompatible with those adopted in Austrias Italian possessions.

Bath-Agos, the native chieftain who ruled the Okul-Kusai and the cis-Mareb provinces on behalf of Italy, intrigued with Mangash, ras of the trans-Mareb province of Tigr, and with Menelek, to raise a revolt against Italian rule on the high plateau.

Huxley admitted that this contention could not be ruled out as impossible.

Meanwhile in England, which was ruled by Peter des Roches as justiciar, the discontent had been increasing rather than diminishing, and its volume became much larger owing to an event of May 1214.

For a century, from Maximian to Maximus (286-388), it was (except under Julian, who preferred to reside in Paris) the administrative centre from which Gaul, Britain and Spain were ruled, so that the poet Ausonius could describe it as the second metropolis of the empire, or "Rome beyond the Alps."

This prince, a brother of the emperor Henry VII., ruled from 1307 to 1354, and was the real founder of the power of Trier.

His superiors, however, obliged him to take the priorship of the convent of Santa Cruz in Segovia, where he ruled for twenty-two years.