rulers

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And while some challenges to power include individual defiance, Sharp argues that, “If the rulers’ power is to be controlled by withdrawing help and obedience, the noncooperation and disobedience must be widespread.”

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025

As successive rulers’ attempts at governing the empire failed, political chaos consumed the ruling class and military as they vied for control.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Two recent events were in both rulers' minds.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2022

But in recent months activists have urged women to remove veils despite the hardline rulers' crackdown on "immoral behaviour".

From Reuters • Sep. 18, 2022

Instead it was probably created to separate elite from hoi pol- loi, with the goal of emphasizing the priestly rulers' separate, superior, socially critical connection to the divine.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann