Meanwhile he ruled over a French rump state based in the spa town of Vichy. |
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One example of this is in his sermon on St. Hilda, the seventh-century abbess who ruled over a double monastery of men and women at Whitby. |
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It is the only Hindu state in the world, ruled over by monarchs who fancy themselves as reincarnations of the Hindu god Vishnu. |
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So that means that for five of the last eight years, all-powerful, unelected leaders have ruled over us. |
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But the Ruthenians of Galicia had no wish to be ruled over by Poles and drew close to the Czechs in defence of Austro-Slavism. |
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Previous governments had ended quickly and violently, the people wanted to be ruled over by a single capable man. |
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Yet Torquilstone is more of a Bluebeard's castle than a Briar Rose's castle, ruled over as it is by a Norman robber baron. |
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The subway became a symbol of anarchic ruin, ruled over by criminally undisciplined dark-skinned youths. |
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As in Cuba, Jamaica's inhabitants divided their island into provinces, each ruled over by a cacique assisted by village headmen or sub-chiefs. |
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He marched into the country that was ruled over by the slayer of his father. |
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From Fludds illustration of The Three Worlds, in Figure I, the Intellectual World can be seen as ruled over by the angels and archangels. |
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It has recently ruled over the country with an iron fist, increasingly solidifying its noose on civil rights and governance. |
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He believed that an invisible hand ruled over the market place, guaranteeing that everyone would eventually benefit, if only the market mechanism were left unencumbered. |
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Some people remain surprised that in this modern age we should still be ruled over by any sort of royalty, as the whole bejewelled charade smacks of musty old deference. |
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Kings and princes originating from Anjou ruled over several countries of the region, to include Hungary. |
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The ad-hoc division ruled over the major games or special events such as Olympic, Paralympic, Commonwealth, and Pan-American Games. |
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For over three years now Liberia has been ruled over by a female president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. |
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That kingdom and its neighboring emirates have tiny populations ruled over by powerful, cohesive families. |
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Under this system, the small white population ruled over the much larger number of blacks. |
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Written law prevails and the High Court has ruled over the application of customary law. |
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King Entemena ruled over the ancient Sumerian capital of Lagash, located in present-day southeastern Iraq. |
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Qadir had ruled over Nangarhar province, which borders Pakistan and is renowned for its vast opium fields. |
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It was ruled over by a series of at best eccentric, at worst paranoically violent emperors. |
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She said 1,000 years ago it was a piece of marshy ground forming part of the disputed kingdom of Glamorgan ruled over by descendants of her ancestor Rhodri the Great. |
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In 1767 Ayutthaya fell to the Burmese King Taksin the Great, who ruled over Thailand for a brief 15 years, making Thonburi its capital city. |
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She ruled over the Habsburg Hereditary Lands, while her consort, Franz Stephan of Lorraine, was Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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When Adam was a living being, he could subdue the whole earth and ruled over it. |
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Youngsters in three classes have this term been learning about the Aztecs who ruled over modern day Mexico before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. |
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The new Capetian dynasty in France which replaced the Carolingian family in 987 ruled over a disparate set of semi-autonomous territorial principalities. |
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For 85 years thereafter monarchs ruled over the Hawaiian kingdom. |
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A twist is that the early Rus state Vladimir ruled over was based in Kiev. |
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The Buddhist kingdom of Sukhothai has founded the first Siamese state in 1238, after the decline of the Khmer Empire which ruled over Southeast Asia for more than 600 years. |
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Ramesses V ruled over Egypt 'for a short time. |
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It is every bit as important to recognise that these countries are ruled over by elites and dictatorships that threaten their own people with armed force, oppressing them and making any kind of development impossible. |
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He ruled over the animals by being in communion with them. |
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After the death of Brutus, Britain was divided into England, Scotland and Wales, ruled over by his three sons. |
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The district around Dumfries was for several centuries ruled over and deemed of much importance by the invading Romans. |
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Phiros became related by marriage to Espan, the nephew of king Heracles, who also ruled over a kingdom in Spain. |
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The Achaemenid Persians ruled over heterogeneous populations who worshipped different gods, often representing them anthropomorphically. |
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For 17 years General Pinochet ruled over a police state. He was uncouth and boorish, prone to banging the table with his revolver at junta meetings. |
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At least three Etruscan kings ruled over Rome: Servilius Tullius, as well as the Tarquinii, whose roots led to Tarquinia, a city now famous for its funereal drawings. |
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The dayroom was ruled over by a gang leader and his friends, who controlled inmates' access to the prison phones and dictated who could sit on a bench to watch TV and who had to sit on the floor. |
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And the England he ruled over was violently divided, deciding its future with pollaxes and spears. |
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It is set in a world of feudal fiefdoms around a great lake, ruled over by a king. |
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By the time he died, he had stemmed the relentless Ottoman advance through Europe and himself ruled over an empire that stretched from the Black Sea to Dalmatia and from Moravia to Bosnia. |
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The Angevin kings directly ruled over more French territory than the kings of France. |
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The Angevins ruled over the Angevin Empire during the 12th and 13th centuries, an area stretching from the Pyrenees to Ireland. |
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Its history is full of numerous dynasties that have ruled over various parts of the country. |
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The Kathmandu Durbar Square held the palaces of the Malla and Shah kings who ruled over the city. |
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On the Indian subcontinent, the Lodhi Dynasty ruled over the Delhi Sultanate during its last phase. |
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The Corieltauvians are believed to have ruled over roughly the area of the East Midlands. |
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At first Sicily was able to remain as an independent kingdom under personal union, while the Bourbons ruled over both from Naples. |
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These areas were ruled over by local Jarls, originally captains of ships or Hersirs. |
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The king ruled over them and administered the land through emissaries called gastaldi. |
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Up to that time, he had remained in Germany, while a deposed Duke, Crescentius II, ruled over Rome and part of Italy, ostensibly in his stead. |
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He ruled over a remarkably peaceful period with no significant external or internal problems. |
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He became related by marriage to a certain Espan, the nephew of king Heracles, who also ruled over a kingdom in Spain. |
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Pizarro, meanwhile, continued receiving the same accounts of a powerful monarch who ruled over the land they were exploring. |
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The Khitan Liao dynasty, which lasted from 907 to 1125, ruled over Manchuria, Mongolia, and parts of Northern China. |
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Under the Peshwas, the Maratha Empire consolidated and ruled over much of South Asia. |
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There were several other kingdoms which ruled over parts of India in the later medieval period prior to the British occupation. |
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They ruled over Cologne and other bishoprics in the northwest of the Holy Roman Empire as well. |
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Yemeni Hashemites, heir to a powerul Imamate that once ruled over northern Yemen, make up roughly twelve percent of the population. |
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Many ethnic groups of Central and Eastern Europe had been divided for centuries, ruled over by the old Monarchies of the Romanovs and the Habsburgs. |
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By contrast, the Russians made no effort to improve sanitation or health amongst the Chinese they ruled over, and destroyed everything when they retreated. |
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