They are nice, if unspectacular, attributes for a ruler or a high priest to aspire to.
After the roller-coaster ride through Judges, ancient Israel rejected God and sought a ruler.
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To say a ruler is legitimate is to say that he has a recognised right to rule.
As a child, if Sonny spoke Crow in school, his teachers would strike his hand with a ruler.
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When she queried this, he said his hand was hurting him then told her his mother had hit him with a ruler.
Unable to properly delegate authority, a ruler but not a manager, Napoleon dictated his letters himself, his aides surrounding him as he wrote to several people simultaneously.
Toggling from left to right rather than up and down can feel a little odd, and future iterations of the computer science demos may include a ruler on screen.
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' He went home and he stayed up all night with sheets of paper and a ruler and he came back next day and said: 'Now I understand, now we can go on.
The desert here is a ruler-edge sheet of mute brown dirt, studded with the occasional spiky yucca tree, and goes on and on and on, much in the same interminable way as a pub bore.
Ali al-Sistani, a Najaf-based ayatollah who is probably the most widely revered scholar among the world's Shias today, has stated that in order to be legitimate such a ruler should win acceptance from a majority of believers.
Although ostensibly a moral fable based on the Greek myth of Apollo and Alphisa, its libretto, ascribed to Louis de Cahusac, contains what were then quite radical thoughts about the nature of a woman's right to choose her partner, and the role of the people in deciding on a ruler.
The Americans were reluctant to send him back to Venezuela to face trial for corruption, but after five years of court battles he was surrendered, the first time a former ruler of a foreign country had been extradited from the United States.
Bellini's profile portrait of Mehmet sniffing a rose is a masterpiece of cross-cultural exchange: Mehmet appears as a civilised ruler rather than a threat, yet in its colour and composition this portrait is unmistakably the handiwork of a Venetian master, testament to the city's artistic pre-eminence.
In the middle of a dense, intellectual, argument about faith and reason, laid out in a speech at Regensburg University in his native Germany, he made reference to a dialogue between a Byzantine ruler, Manuel II Paleologos, and a Persian scholar.
King Charles of Anjou (and Naples), a powerful ruler of the era, tried to use him as a pawn to gain legitimacy over Sicily.
In 2350 BC, a Sumerian ruler cuts taxes and regulations for his people who even had to pay a tax to get divorced.
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Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, looks increasingly like a dynastic ruler bent on enriching his clan.
Chaos have rocked Mali since a military ruler overthrew the democratically-elected president in March.
The first of these was Muhammad Ghauri, who established himself by beating a Hindu ruler, Prithvi Raj Chauhan.
Mali plunged into chaos in March after a military ruler overthrew the president, shaking one of West Africa's most stable democracies.
Chaos have rocked Mali since a military ruler overthrew the democratically-elected president in March, shaking one of West Africa's most stable democracies.
He smoked a pipe and slapped a steel ruler against his hand.
It was, arguably, an analog computer, in that it housed pencils, pens, a calculator, ruler, protractor and a folder for each of one's classes.
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Although Tunisia has toppled a longtime ruler and held historic elections since Bouazizi's death, the country is still mired in political unrest.
Bowling Green is the only subway station that has one: Near the turnstiles at every subway entrance is a blue sign with a yellow ruler.
It shows only a metal ruler mounted on white canvas and painted yellow until the 62-inch mark, then white to 75, then green up to 100.
Both had the advantage of building on an established planning grid introduced by a colonial ruler and both have the power to limit immigration and thus size.
But last November, he published a devastating treatise that drew on Islamic law and jurisprudence to argue that resorting to violence is banned and so was rebelling against a Muslim ruler.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is staking her future on a power-sharing deal with a military ruler she hopes can help restore her family's name to center stage in the nation's political arena.
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