Sentences with phrase «then military ruler»

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The idea of a national identity card was first mooted in 1978 by current President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was then Nigeria's military ruler.

The Duellists (1977), the feature debut of Ridley Scott, begins in 1800, «the year Napoleon became ruler of France,» with an early morning duel in a dewy green meadow where French military officer Gabriel Feraud (Harvey Keitel) runs his opponent through and then busies himself -LSB-...]

A website run by the neocon thinktank the Center for Security Policy (members include Frank Gaffney, Richard Perle and Doug Feith) has published (then removed) a piece calling for Bush to use his military powers to «the first permanent president of America» and «ruler of the world».