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

This feeling is reflected in Syria's new rulers' policy towards Iran.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

However, a series of experts told The Associated Press that the most important immediate cause is more recent: Haitian rulers’ increasing dependence on street gangs.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2024

The Malaccan rulers’ ability to regulate the conduct of sailors and merchants both in their city and aboard their ships made the port a more desirable place in which to do business.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 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