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• n  a person who rules or commands
• n  measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths

• The Administration knows well that the Saudi rulers are among bin Laden's most loathed enemies, and overthrowing them is a key objective of his global jihad.
• The long-time ruler leaves behind a number of challenges for his country, as well as jockeying for new positions in the kingdom.
• Pu Yi proved a brittle ruler who lashed out at cowering servants to compensate for his sense of powerlessness.

• swayer
• rule

News & Articles

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• Kim Jong Un gives Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' to staff, report says
  North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un is rumored to have distributed copies of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to top officials earlier this year.
  June 19, 2013 - GlobalPost
• N.Korea leader 'gives Hitler's Mein Kampf to officials'
  North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership skills manual.
  June 19, 2013 - Fox News
• N.Korean leader stresses Hitler's skills, report claims
  North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership skills manual.
  June 19, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• President Bush in MiamiHerald.com
  We will persistently clarify the choice before every ruler and every nation: The moral choice between oppression, which is always wrong, and freedom, which is eternally right,Bush said in his second inaugural address in 2005. "America will...
• Georgi Kitov in Forbes
  The artifacts belonged to a Thracian ruler from the end of the 4th century BC who was buried here,Kitov added.
• Yulia Latynina in FOXNews
  Kadyrov willfully tries to increase the influence of local customs over the life of the republic because this makes him the absolute ruler of the republic,said Yulia Latynina, a political analyst in Moscow.