Collocations withruler
These are words often used in combination withruler.
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absolute ruler
Rome would never again have a hereditary king, even if later emperors were absolute rulers in all but name.
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authoritarian ruler
Here the ruler is seen as the judge, the builder of consensus, a less authoritarian ruler than the hunter.
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colonial ruler
It was said he was a typical colonial ruler, idle, grumpy but generous to those who fawned upon him and recognised his greatness.
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foreign ruler
Such pockets of malcontents offered the foreign ruler a golden opportunity to subvert his rival from within.
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hereditary ruler
What the average man in the street does understand is that it is an anomaly to make a man a hereditary ruler simply by qualification of birth.
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local ruler
In 1559 both villages were expressly unified as a single community by the decree of the local ruler after fighting between the residents.
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military rulers
Dispersing the working class geographically meant reducing its ability to cause trouble for the country's military rulers.
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powerful ruler
In this metaphor, the individual serpents probably represented the different strands of society that only a powerful ruler could coordinate.
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secular ruler
From the outset, the motet explicitly aligns the potential merits of the secular ruler with those of his sacred counterpart.
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sole ruler
He was co-ruler with his father until 1348 and sole ruler until 1372.
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supreme ruler
Is he just to be an overlord dealing with powerful vassals who sometimes get too powerful, or is he to be a kind of supreme ruler himself?
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traditional ruler
In accordance with local requirements, the children were selected with the informed consent of their parents and the traditional ruler of each area.
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