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.
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.
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.
' 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.
Rana who was suffering from some unknown disease, the Rana ruler had a good rapport with British Monarchs, so he requested the British govt. to send a british physician to cure him.
After the collapse of Indonesia's economy along with longtime ruler Suharto in the late 1990s, a weary world tended to discount the nation's travails.
Moved by a combination of reason and fear, Hobbes believed, human beings will contract with each other to create a sovereign - an absolute ruler who will prevent any slide into anarchy.
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.
Codevilla quotes former Soviet ruler Mikhail Gorbachev's retelling of a conversation he reportedly had with the vice president Bush about then president Ronald Reagan.
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.
Pakistan's military ruler General Parvez Musharraf is expected to hold talks with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami during a two-day official visit.
In a gesture of friendship, President Chirac presented his Algerian counterpart with the silver seal of the last ruler of Algiers, taken by French forces in 1830.
Also in the group of donated works is a stylized royal portrait from the late 16th century, "Commemorative Head of an Oba, " which shows the ruler's head chin-deep in a collar made from coral beads and capped with a crown made from braided strings and other beads.
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