11 sentences with 'ruling'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ruling and other words derived from it.
• « These were periods during which the political control of the ruling dynasty broke down and rival groups fought for control. »
• « The Old Kingdom united Egypt under a single ruling house, developed systems of record-keeping, and formed an important caste of scribes, the royal bureaucrats who mastered hieroglyphic writing. »
• « The empire described in this chapter is called the Achaemenid Persian Empire, after its first ruling clan. »
• « The Ptolemies ruled over Egypt. The Ptolemies were very powerful and, perhaps more importantly, had the benefit of ruling over a coherent and unified state that had ancient traditions of kingship. »
• « However, there were major problems for the Hellenistic ruling class, the most important of which was the continuing stratification between the Greeks and their non-Greek subjects. »
• « Although the Ptolemaic kingdom remained relatively stable until its takeover by the Romans in 30 BC, both the Antigonid and Seleucid kingdoms lost ground over the years, only ruling a fraction of their former territories when the Romans began to invade in the 2nd century BC. »
• « Roman terms for ruling would last until the 20th century CE: the imperial titles of the rulers of both Russia and Germany - "tsar" and "kaiser", respectively - meant "Caesar". »
• « The importance of Vespasian's takeover was that it reinforced the idea that the real power in Rome was no longer that of the old ruling families, but of the armies; Vespasian had no legal claim to the throne, but was ratified by the Senate anyway. »
• « According to Roman sources, the power of the ruling dynasty was limited both by court intrigue and by the frequency of invasions from the steppes (the usual problem of the settled dynasties of Mesopotamia and Persia going back to the very origins of civilisation). »
• « Like the Greeks under Alexander, the Romans during their centuries of conquest, and the Germanic tribes that divided the Western Roman Empire, the Arabs found themselves with a small minority ruling over several other groups. »