Definition of Ruling

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Ruling

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Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign.

Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen.

The act of one who rules; ruled lines.

A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially an oral decision, as in excluding evidence.

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Ruling Quotations

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Karl Marx

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Karl Marx

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
Al Capone

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Louisa May Alcott

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.
Mikhail Bakunin

Ruling Translations

ruling in French is ambiant
ruling in German is beherrschend, regelnd
ruling in Spanish is gobernante

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