The four decades long rule of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi appears to have finally run its course.
Instead, Musharraf may find himself saddled with a parliament that could challenge his decade-long rule or even try to impeach him.
It comes just days before Mugabe could face the most serious challenges to his decades-long rule in the March 29 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Michel Djotodia declared on 25 March that he would rule by decree after his Seleka rebel group stormed CAR's capital, Bangui, ending President Bozize's decade-long rule.
Last June, Mr Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison for killings committed during the 2011 uprising that ended his decades-long rule, but in January a retrial was ordered because of procedural failings.
Separately, a U.S. Tax Court judge prodded the IRS to explain why it was taking so long to rule on a whistleblower claim involving a former banker from New Jersey.
The doctrine is a long-established rule which allows the reselling of goods to a new owner.
With loans and other forms of finance, the substitution effect has long been the rule.
The Department of Labor announcement was coupled with news that the long-awaited rule will go into effect later than had been planned.
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They have also taken an even bolder step - rejecting a long-established rule of Muslim scholars that later (and often more conservative) texts override earlier ones.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a long-standing rule that acceptance speeches should last no longer than 45 seconds (this year, that limit has been raised to a minute), but it was not until 2003 that the show's producers attempted to enforce it.
It might then consider adopting another quite modest proposal, recently advanced by Ira Millstein, a leading lawyer and corporate-governance reformer, and a rule long observed in more shareholder-friendly places such as Britain: if, by withholding support, shareholders cast more votes against a candidate than in favour, he should not be elected to the board.
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So too was it long established that the rule of law was more comfortable and agreeable than the rule of men.
She was the BBC's correspondent in Pakistan for three years, reporting on its political developments as the country emerged from a long period of military rule.
The new study, which followed patients for an average of 4.5 years, didn't last long enough to conclusively rule out a small increased risk of cancer from oral bisphosphonates, according to the researchers.
This has been suspended for the past year, principally because the Irish Republican Army (IRA) refused to announce a definitive end to its long war against British rule in Northern Ireland (see table below).
On February 1, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the long-delayed final rule that is intended to implement the Physician Payments Sunshine provisions that were included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
But Wall Street money mavens know that not only can they bully the SEC to delay or snuff the fiduciary rule as long as Republicans control key House committees, they can channel the all-important flow of money to get those anti-investor Congressmen re-elected.
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Singapore, a wealthy and tightly regulated financial center, has long prided itself for strong rule of law and a tough stance on corruption.
Online communities could rule on show concepts long before they are ever made into pilots.
South Africa's apartheid government had designated the ANC a terrorist organization during the group's decades-long struggle against whites-only rule.
But perhaps America's bigger mistake was to allow Mr Aristide's untrammelled rule to last as long as it did.
For investors in the stock market, it is a general rule to assume that long-term assets should not be needed in the three- to five-year range.
The real focus should be on letting markets set relative prices, including interest rates, and adopting a monetary rule to protect the long-run value of money.
There is little doubt that the match fixers' sophisticated inter-continental operations have put them a long way ahead of the rigid rule-bound tactics of those trying to stop them.
Firm rule was necessary, as long as it could be improved by Christian principles.
This broad rule enables companies to hide long-lived asset impairments in operating earnings.
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Nor is it common in the fickle toy industry for one company to rule a market segment for long.
As it stands currently, the NCAA rule book is 434 pages long.
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