absolute ruler

There is no shogun, no unquestioned and absolute ruler, holding the country’s fractious lords together when “Shogun” begins.

From the National Palace, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is not yet an absolute ruler but appears to aspire to be one, is furious with his critics, almost all of them journalists, writers and intellectuals.

Platini smiled as he was formally introduced to the lunch’s guests of honor: Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, who would, within a few years, replace his father as the country’s absolute ruler.

Abdullah Alaoudh rightly pointed out in his June 25 op-ed, “Biden should not betray defenders of democracy in Saudi Arabia,” the foreign affairs and human rights complications posed by the trip by President Biden to the capital of Saudi Arabia, where he will kiss the ring of a notorious alleged murderer who is the de facto absolute ruler of a “pariah” country where barbaric public executions take place every day, where there is no independent legal system, where torture is commonplace and where ordinary people have no basic human rights.

Among the 3,500 entries from more than 300 entrants were funny but too frequent ones like Seventh Letter x Dean’s List = G Whiz, or Absolute Ruler x Overrule = Veto Corleone, or Gunfighter x Miss Everything = Dead Gunfighter.