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Ruler in sentence

206 examples of Ruler in a sentence

Well if you think about it, it's really hard to measure out round columns using a ruler.
Because it's not enough to remove a leader or ruler or dictator.
This is an 88-by-88-sized Costas array, mapped to notes on the piano, played using a structure called a Golomb ruler for the rhythm, which means the starting time of each pair of notes is distinct as well.
The story begins in the Iran-Iraq war and that series of events that culminated in the invasion of Iraq by foreign forces, the removal of a despotic ruler and instant regime change.
And that is what this cylinder is, the declaration made by the ruler guided by God who had toppled the Iraqi despot and was going to bring freedom to the people.
The Greek historian Xenophon wrote his book "Cyropaedia" promoting Cyrus as the great ruler.
And dictatorship meant that all the land was owned by a single ruler or by a small oligarch.
There's some bumps along the way, but the big story is you could practically fit a ruler to it.
Now, mathematicians thought this was very strange because as you shrink a ruler down, you measure a longer and longer length.
And since they went through the iterations an infinite number of times, as the ruler shrinks down to infinity, the length goes to infinity.
And I expected them to put a ruler next to the wall, size it up with a finger, and make an estimate of the height.
The diameter and radius are easy, they're just straight lines you can measure with a ruler.
Presiding over this assembly is Jesus, first a suffering man on the cross, now a glorious ruler in Heaven.
Hieron wanted to construct the largest ship ever, which was destined to be given as a present for Egypt's ruler, Ptolemy.
"So, France went through that whole revolution just to end up with another all-powerful ruler?" "Not quite.
Bonaparte was a ruler full of contradictions, defending a popular revolution by imposing absolute dictatorship, and spreading liberal ideals through imperial wars, and though he never achieved his dream of conquering Europe, he undoubtedly left his mark on it, for better or for worse.
He reasoned that being a ruler was no different than any other craft, whether a potter or doctor, and that only those who had mastered the craft were fit to lead.
But separating the ruler from the myth is all part of putting history on trial.
Although a clever ruler who made his city prosperous, he was also a devious tyrant who seduced his niece and killed visitors to show off his power.
Most famously, he notes that for a ruler, “it is much safer to be feared than loved.”
The tract even ends with an appeal to Lorenzo de’ Medici, the recently installed ruler of Florence, urging him to unite the fragmented city-states of Italy under his rule.
But before I finished, the chief of the barbarians stood up and said, 'But wait, you haven't told us about the greatest ruler of them all.
We can see here he was practicing with his ruler.
Others just look like they might have been made with a ruler or a compass.
He put a dodo leg bones on a scanner with a ruler.
and there is almost nothing we can do about it, aside from taking a ruler and starting to measure it.
Many young people in Africa have grown up in societies where a single ruler has ruled their entire lives.
Most people will consider that Yul Brynner's greatest performance was as the ruler of Siam in THE KING AND I. Certainly it gave him a wide variety of moods to test his abilities in, from comic, to tragic, from eager to learn to dominating to hateful.
He is quite literally drawn into the prisoners ship, and after many twists and turns finds himself united with the prisoners (Ka D'argo, a Luxom warrior; Pa'U Zhaan, a Delvian priestess; Rygel XVI, a deposed ruler; and Aeryn Sun, a Peacekeeper who has reluctantly joined the crew).
American-made final entry in the "Blood Island" series of Filipino horror films concerns Abdul Amir (Reed Hadley), ruler of a fictional country.
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