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.
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.
To say a ruler is legitimate is to say that he has a recognised right to rule.
The Iran of her childhood is gone but the one of her memories is a place no relative or ruler can destroy: a land of sweet shops, snowy mountains and heroes and heroines from a glorious if mythical past.
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.
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.
Inscribed with the name Nur Jahan, the wife of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahangir, this heart-shaped diamond is believed to have been a gift from the ruler to his son, who became the great emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666).
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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.
This is the Mexica ruler at the height of his power, a god among gods.
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.
Before you think Lycerius is just an unfeeling ruler, he said he does want to find a way to end the longstanding war.
Ex-President Suharto, the country's deposed ruler, a Javanese, was, and presumably still is, deeply superstitious, being guided by his astrologer in important decisions.
France, Djibouti's former colonial ruler, still maintains a base in the territory, and America is now in the process of installing a force of 800 special-operations troops.
Pakistan's military ruler General Parvez Musharraf is expected to hold talks with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami during a two-day official visit.
Although Tunisia has toppled a longtime ruler and held historic elections since Bouazizi's death, the country is still mired in political unrest.
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.
Fatima al-Sabah is an assistant under-secretary at the Emiri diwan, or ruler's court, and a member of the ruling family, according to the Kuwaiti news agency, Kuna.
Dubai's energetic, tax-hating ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, is pushing hard to make the state a regional high-tech center as well, one reason he looked favorably upon the founding five years ago of The American University in Dubai (where yours truly gave the spring commencement address).
King is the traditional title of Otuam's ruler, and Bartels says she's happy to be called a king, rather than queen, because it means she can achieve more.
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