Sentences with phrase «ruler of most»

His one wish was to ensure that his grandson, Charles Habsburg, already ruler of most of Spain and of Burgundy and the Netherlands, should succeed him.

Nineteen - year - old French speaking Charles Habsburg, already ruler of most of Spain, the Netherlands and Burgundy was elected in spite of all the attempts by Pope and Curia to prevent it.

Not exact matches

The most obvious way migrants could use blockchain technology to securely store money while traveling would be to convert cash into digital currency, but Soros dismissed the value of cryptocurrency, making clear he believed its primary appeal was «for tax evasion» and «the rulers of dictatorships.»

Trump has been a vocal critic of the Iran nuclear deal and imposing new sanctions would put economic pressure on Iranian leadership, but analysts say it could also send the wrong message to the country's people who are in the midst of challenging their rulers in the most significant uprising Iran has seen since 2009.

Over the past few years, the chairman of Thomson Reuters has forged a friendship with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister and ruler of Dubai, and one of the most influential leaders in the Middle East.

So most of the debts were owed to the rulers themselves, or to their palace (tax) collectors who gradually became independent creditors by the wealth they made.

The Brussels eurocrats are in the image of Plato's Philospher King, only there are too many Kings all believing themselves to be the most capable ruler.

Most debts in early Mesopotamia were owed to the palace, so rulers basically were cancelling debts owed to themselves and their collectors when they proclaimed Clean Slates that saved their economies from widespread debt bondage that would have diverted labor to work for creditors at the expense of the palace.

Well guys it is Hell already here on earth endless killings worldwide... Back here where I am Ye is already heading towards that the whole country is on demonstrations demanding resignation of the ruler but he seems unwilling to resign before the end of his ruling period on 2013, while the streets are demanding immediate resignation and that has caused bloodshed in every city in the country... the streets demonstrations has enforced civil strikes all over the country which is now paralyzed... no cash with the banks all money frozen in the central bank... My business is in the field of services therefore I find my self now obliged to dismiss part of my staff in order to be able to survive this unfortunate thing... Already have reduced working hour to one shift to reduce running cost... so you see am now sitting alone in the whole building of our business office writing here as nothing can be done to carry on business even if there is business... Just I pray these unfortunate events passes over soon before it becomes out of control as had happened in Libya... we have nothing to say but (Ina - Lilah - WaIna - Alih - Ragoon) & (Alhmed - Lilah for every thing)... «Mankind has always been Hasty while God has always been the most Patient»...

He was also the most beautiful angel and thought himself deserving of all the praise and worship God received, so he challenged God's position as ruler of Heaven.

«The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery.

It was in Western Europe, where it faced a much weaker paganism, was associated with the prestige of Roman civilization, and, while often favored by civil rulers, did not have to confront a continuously powerful state which controlled all phases of life, that the influence of Jesus was most marked.

The most important of these is the middle section dealing directly with St Francis's encounter with Islam and Sultan al - Malik al Kamil, the ruler of Egypt, Palestine and Syria, during the Fifth Crusade in the early thirteenth century.

Surely, the act of the Godhead in bringing to birth the destined savior and ruler of the world in such humble fashion is the single most winsome moment in redemptive history.

We had the nicest most sincere nuns teaching us when I was a child — apparently I was one of the «lucky ones» as there are so many stories about the «mean old nuns» wrapping knuckles with rulers and more.

It was during the 1980s that this realization dawned even in the quarters most reluctant to admit it — among the rulers of the socialiststyle states.

Moses rightly perceived the deadly danger of opposing the pharaoh, surely one of the most powerful rulers on earth.

The political constitution, according to Madison, would aim at obtaining for rulers «men who possess most wisdom to discern and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society.»

Indeed, the prophets actually saw God's spacious justice as a way of creating order, whereas rulers of a prevailing order are most likely to see justice as a threat.

To show how tyrannical any country that aimed at achieving perfect justice — even at the expense of family, friendship, and the self - consciousness of persons born to love other persons and die as particular persons — would be, Socrates turned the rulers into gods and most people into animals to be controlled.

Maybe that Kingdom, when it expands, doesn't overthrow Kings and rulers and governments through power and might, but redeems them through service, sacrifice, generosity, kindness, justice, forgiveness, mercy, and most of all, love.

One of the most striking is the LORD»S command to an Israelite ruler to sit still while Yahweh makes the ruler's enemies a stool for his feet (Ps.

The Bible is a collection of stories from one small portion of the world and most of those stories come from years before the bible was put together by the pagan ruler Constantine.

John Calvin, for instance, held a somewhat narrow line, stressing the responsibility of citizens to fear and honor whatever ruler is placed over them, even «the most wicked tyrant,» a Nebuchadnezzar or Belshazzar.

What has happened is that he has entered into the life of the human world as the most persistent of rulers, the most inescapable of companions.

By the eleventh century most of the ulama were teaching that obedience was an absolute duty, even to an unjust ruler, since an unjust ruler was better than none at all.

Hannah Arendt, in her illuminating book On Revolution (Viking, 1965), exalts the American Revolution as the most successful one and traces that success to the fact that «it occurred in a country that knew nothing of mass poverty and among a people who had a widespread experience of self - government;» She says that one of the blessings in the American situation was that the revolution grew out of a conflict with a limited monarchy, for «the more absolute the ruler, the more absolute the revolution will be which replaces him.»

They have, with success in some countries, campaigned to replace legal codes, which they inherited from Western imperialist rulers, by the introduction of Shari'a — often in its harshest and most conservative form.

Especially in Jesus» time, under foreign rule, most of the rich people compromised with the pagan rulers and became worldly and irreligious, while the poor more often remained faithful.

Apart from the conviction that the supreme Ruler is also good, the vicissitudes of history appear as the «trampling march of unconscious power «6 or at most as stages in the spiral of evolutionary progress wherein the anticipated goal fails to redeem the loss along the way.

As heir to the 200 - year - old throne of West Africa's 19th - century Caliphate Empire, Abubakar is one of the most influential traditional rulers in the region.

If God truly did half of what He is portrayed as doing in the Old Testament, then the God of the Old Testament appears to be the most violent, petty, and hateful being in the universe, and people are right to reject Him as the ruler of their lives.

In one of the most authentic Sunni Hadith collections, Sahih Bukhari, Muhammad is reported to have said: «Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler.»

Most of those attending the churches have not been taught that Satan is the ruler of the «world».

The peasants who have now banded together in Swabia have formulated their intolerable grievances against the rulers in twelve articles, and have undertaken to support them with certain passages of Scripture... the thing that pleases me most... is that they offer to accept instructions... Since I have a reputation for being one of those who deal with the Holy Scriptures here on earth, and especially as one whom they mention and call upon by name in the second document, I have all the more courage and confidence in openly publishing my instruction.

Yes, God is ruler of all, but He does most of His work through us.

This development is most strikingly illustrated in the history of the Church of England in the colonies, which in the South was established from the beginning by the Charters, rather consistently supported by successive laws, and generally nurtured by the civil rulers.

The most important parts of this scheme were the local parish ministers, for they occupied a position in between the ruler and the families.

The captain of the Hector, William Hawkins, searched the interior for jewels and spices, and was greeted at the Moghul court by the Emperor Jahangir, probably the world's most powerful and wealthy ruler.

Georgian cuisine is the most closely related to Armenian cuisine — not only because of their shared border, but because Armenia (or its own rulers) ruled at least part of Georgia for almost one thousand years.

But at 67 years old and after 20 years most of which he was a lone ruler who didn't want input or alternative opinions but only yes man around him, it is not reasonable to expect Wenger to change his complicated approach.

I pretty much became a human mattress for my baby; I'd put pillows all around me then place a baby mattress cover over the pillows to keep them in place and so that my baby wouldn't fall between pillows, etc (my poor hubby had to sleep straight like a ruler, due to my pillow queen and I taking over most of the bed).

It was most certainly heavily used by known ancient rulers - from Persian emperors who left behind what was clearly fictitious accounts of themselves, to Cleon of Athens; from Alexander the Great's mom claiming he was a product of an affair with a god to Augustus who commissioned art to portray himself as humble and a man of the people.

I thank most immensely the women and their groups, market women and men, traders, artisans, workers, active and retired civil servants, students, transporters, commercial motorcyclists, employers of labour, organised private sector, the business community, non-governmental organisations, community based organisations, youth organisations, security agencies, the media, political parties, traditional rulers, community leaders and religious organisations and their leaders.

His millionaire father, Ibrahim Dasuki who was the Sultan of Sokoto and the most powerful traditional ruler in Northern Nigeria, was deposed by Abacha and banished to Kaduna for the «sin» of his forthright son.

Republicans believe in popular sovereignty, but they have always understood that the most difficult task was not necessarily overcoming the ruler directly, but instilling a public ethos of citizenship that would make popular sovereignty possible.

«The role of traditional rulers in this reconciliation process can not be over emphasized because most of them have the ears of their people.

According to him, «as the traditional ruler of Ikate Elegushi Land, the welfare of the people and development of Lagos State are most paramount to me.

And during that period, our rulers have constantly proclaimed success in negotiations with the EU — most recently in David Cameron's meaningless concessions — while presiding over a one - way transfer of powers from our country to Brussels.

«Most of us are aware especially for those who have been following the consultations, we have worked very hard to ensure that the representations across the two zones that we are interested in consulting with initially is as wide as possible and we have tried to inculcate that even in our traditional rulers today.