The early rulers of the city were the Ays.

Muslim rulers have mostly failed to satisfy the needs of their populations.

The country is unruly, and its rulers know it.

Arabs, of course, have known for years that their rulers were beyond reform.

But, in many ways, Dubai s rulers have been remarkably tolerant of free expression.

But Iran s rulers apparently don t want to learn from history.

China's communist rulers are dithering about how to respond.

Under a monarchy that led the country from 1951 1969, King Idris s relatives and inner circle ran roughshod over fledgling state institutions.

Since Erdogan is a critic of Israel, Arab rulers cannot say this openly.

Rulers relied on loyal tribes and narrow cliques to prop up their regimes.

Because my government and my rulers have to value their own people.

China s communist rulers must own up to their history and drop Mao and the communist legacy.

For nearly five decades, Burma s military rulers have systematically undermined the interests of their own citizens.

Leaders want to make a smokescreen for the international community while the people are dying.

Until now, Syria s rulers have relied on their anti Israel, anti Western rhetoric to protect themselves.

Is it competitive enough to prevent discredited leaders from clinging to power?

Moreover, in Africa post authoritarian rulers are not necessarily respectful of human rights and decent governance.

Our leaders barrel into wars, telling themselves happy stories about cakewalks and welcome parades.

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It was nothing extraordinary it was not the first time that a Robertian would be competing with a Carolingian.

Many would argue that he brought the town back into a respectable position among Czech cities.

These states competed with each other in the arts, architecture, aesthetics, and trade, resulting in tremendous development.

Many autocratic rulers in Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Belarus, and elsewhere still lead the old fashioned way.

England s rulers sought in vain to keep a lid on the greatest explosion of economic energy and financial wealth in human history.

So the country s rulers have come to believe that they can gain attention and resources only through provocation.

The question is whether Syria s rulers can make the political choices necessary to obtain them.

After being victimized by Chiang Kai shek's spies, China's Communist rulers created a vast spying apparatus of their own.

Burma s neighbors in ASEAN should stop looking the other way as Burma s rulers trample on Burma s citizens.

In practice, Soviet rulers were compelled to compromise in order to remain in power.

The country was living the Mexican Moment, as his handlers labeled it, and appeared to be on the verge of fulfilling, at long last, its great promise.

Unfortunately, Russia s rulers are not accustomed to leaving the country and the rest of the world for long without something surprising to gawk at.

The rulers argued that public protests throughout the region were being orchestrated by Shia Iran, and were anti Sunni and sectarian.

Yet China's rulers are right to postpone the decision to float.

Of course, transparency alone cannot prevent this, but it will show everyone how much the rulers are getting, and who is funding them.

None of this should be surprising, given how our corrupt rulers systematically incite regional and ethnic hatred.

Moreover, the military leaders are dragging their feet on easing restrictions on the import of humanitarian supplies and allowing a UN assessment team into the country.

To be utterly boring, holding forth for hours on end, regardless of entertainment value, is the privilege of autocrats. Only communist rulers could force millions of people to buy their complete works, filled with wooden ideas written in turgid prose.

Only communist rulers could force millions of people to buy their complete works, filled with wooden ideas written in turgid prose.

Northern governors could, for example, offer the southern states a larger share of Nigeria's oil revenue in exchange for their support for a northern president.

With the economy in steep decline, Poland s rulers began to seek to stabilize the political system and reestablish relations with the West.

If true African unity is to emerge, Africa's rulers must be committed to it, not just in words, but by deeds.

Saudi Arabia s rulers, as custodians of the Muslim faith s holiest places in Mecca and Medina, perhaps feel this threat most keenly.

But now, China s rulers, through Leung, are pushing potentially disastrous policies aimed, in Chinese Communist Party parlance, at de colonizing Hong Kong.

Thus, China s rulers acted in character last December, when they cracked down on news organizations that were getting a bit too assertive.

Iranian rulers have as little trust in the West as the West has in them, and they continue to increase international suspicion by their words and actions.