It does however provide an incomparable insight into life and justice during King Hammurabi's reign (1792-1750BC) as first ruler of the Babylonian Empire.
The village elders, who remembered Bartels from the times she'd visited with her mother, had decided to anoint her as their new ruler.
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.
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Again, therefore, Olson sees the failure to provide these rights as springing from the ruler's lack of a sufficiently encompassing interest.
Many say his main disadvantage is that, as the former military ruler of Sierra Leone from 1992-1996, he is associated with a deeply unpopular period before democracy.
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He launched a political party in 1989 but was able to win a parliamentary seat only in the 2002 elections that were widely seen as tailored by the then military ruler, Gen Pervez Musharraf, to suit his own political aims.
Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed celebrated as Mikael Barzalona rode Monterosso to victory in the the emirate's World Cup in April, but the result was somewhat overshadowed by the death of another Godolphin horse, Fox Hunt, in the inaugural Gold Cup held earlier in the meeting.
Officials have rejected nomination papers for Pakistan's ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf to stand as a candidate in forthcoming polls.
In August, the president moved decisively against the military leadership, sending into retirement Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi -- who, as Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, had acted as the country's de facto ruler in the wake of Mubarak's ouster and prior to Morsy's election.
U. President Jacques Chirac of France, Cambodia's onetime colonial ruler, supports a tribunal, as do the other European powers, though all are aware of the practical problems involved.
July 8th, the day after he died and the end of a month of official mourning for Abacha's death, had been billed for some time as the moment for Nigeria's new ruler, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, to announce a new programme for the transition to democracy, still promised for October 1st.
Liberia, which was founded by black Americans, looks to the United States as Sierra Leone looks to Britain, the former colonial ruler.
King Charles of Anjou (and Naples), a powerful ruler of the era, tried to use him as a pawn to gain legitimacy over Sicily.
King Charles of Anjou (and Naples), the most powerful ruler of the era, tried to use him as a pawn to gain legitimacy over Sicily.
Across the sea, there were the Dothraki, a Hun-like race of horseman warriors, whose brutal ruler, Drogo, took the delicate, unspellable Daenerys as a bride.
The same battle cry was used by rebels in Libya last year as they inched toward the capital, Tripoli, seat of then-ruler Moammar Gadhafi.
For a time he had a strong populist image, seen as a champion of the rule of law, praised as the only judge in history to have stood up to a military ruler and won.
In July and August 2012 suicide bombers tried but failed to kill the shehu - or traditional ruler - of the Borno emirate in north-east Nigeria as well as the emir of Fika in Yobe state.
Mr Obasanjo, a former military ruler, was selected by Nigeria's political elite to stand as a consensus candidate in elections after the death of Nigeria's last military dictator, Sani Abacha, in 1998.
Bhutan was the first country to attempt this in 1972, when its ruler coined the term "gross domestic happiness, " but the idea is as old as Plato's Republic: how to cultivate happy as well as prosperous citizens.
But it quickly sets its protagonist in the context of the empire of the Mexica (as the Aztecs are properly called), of which he was the ninth and most powerful ruler from 1502 to 1520.
For too long Calzaghe, the 11-year ruler of the super-middleweight division, fought mandatory nobodies in sparsely-populated halls as the big boys ran and hid.
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.
The presidential election that Nigeria is to hold on August 1st was turned into a referendum on General Sani Abacha, the current ruler, when all of the five political parties allowed to take part adopted the general as their candidate.
As a child, if Sonny spoke Crow in school, his teachers would strike his hand with a ruler.
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