How To Use Ruling In A Sentence

An Ohio appellate court last week reversed a lower court ruling that the city's pernicious treatment of marijuana users was unconstitutional under state law.
An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
It also emerged on Tuesday that actress Sienna Miller had obtained a court ruling ordering phone operator Vodafone to disclose data relating to other users - so-called third party disclosure.
Ruling was in a sense a job, a calling, the only thing he knew how to do and could conceive of doing.
The efforts of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the ruling elite to divert attention from their country's increasingly threadbare imperial pretensions furnished Musil with comic material galore.

This is the main concern worrying the economic strategists of the Russian ruling elite.
She got married when she was twenty and had two children but was increasingly unhappy about the political situation in Southern Rhodesia, particularly the racism of the white ruling class.
The council's housing panel is expected to refer a 3.88 per cent rent rise to the authority's ruling executive for approval when it meets next Monday.
This is the main concern worrying the economic strategists of the Russian ruling elite.
Perhaps spurred by the era of Republican dominance and a reassertive ruling class, historians have given new attention to the plantocracy.
With her ruling early in November, the five-year legal tangle over the future of the Corporation has ended.
The ruling dynasties and aristocracies required an essential stability in international as well as domestic affairs.
This process of clarification may not have pleased the ruling classes or the officials of the religious parties.
The ruling obligates airlines to release information about their flight delays.
Crucially, at the heart of this construct is the Commission, comprised of appointed technocrats ruling as benign Platonic guardians, protecting the interests of all the peoples of Europe. Democracy or stability?
He is shown seated before his famous invention: a ruling machine for producing concave diffraction gratings, which are slightly curved metal plates scored with minutely spaced lines that diffract light into spectra.
He suggested the justices could "begrudgingly" affirm the lower court "on alternative grounds" and take up some of the questions it avoided in its previous ruling. Justices Leery of Bush's Guantanamo Stance
Judge Benson, unbudging in his view that justice had been done in the case of United States v. Leonard Peltier, refused to order a new trial, and once again (in 1984) his ruling was appealed before the circuit court. United States v. Leonard Peltier
Despite this apparent initial failure, which was openly scorned by China's state media as "performance art", the boxun.com blog site asked again for what it called "strolling protests" against the ruling Communist Party at 2pm on Sunday. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
While the Kelly gang appears to have posed a genuine threat to the authority of the ruling colonials, the film prefers to focus on the adventures of the outlaws rather than an increasingly desperate establishment.
The infinite deviousness of "the ruling classes" and the immense difficulty of the left's task are a given in these halls.
We are denied use of the land by the ruling classes.
He continues to govern -- fighting off legal challenges to his sovereign immunity and threats to his ruling majority -- until he dies in office.
The Bank has not given a formal ruling on this method of presentation from a capital adequacy perspective.
The Southern ruling class seceded from the US in early 1861 to defend a social system built on the backs of destitute slaves.
Evidently, for many influentials in world music, the art is a question of conquering and ruling the earth, no less.
No matter what ruling they ultimately emerge with, there are bound to be some very miffed clubs across the nation.
All the candidates won places on the ruling council.
I think they are likely to lead to conflicts between fragments and fractions within ruling corporate elites.
The principal goal of Republican conservatives is to reverse the Roe v Wade ruling.
In ruling out a Yes vote from the get-go, Israel conceded immediate defeat in the world body, in the process forgoing a range of tactical advantages it could have gained by signaling qualified support for a resolution and then negotiating to help shape its wording to a text Israel could have profited by backing. Bradley Burston: Ten Reasons Palestine Is Right to Bring its Case to the UN
Previously they could use 'reasonable chastisement', with a judge making a final ruling. Times, Sunday Times
I say to you that you are honour-bound, from the point of view of your reputation, to give that ruling.
The Ontario government, backed by other provincial governments, argued against the lower court rulings, saying the Metis existed as a community only after European settlers arrived in Canada.
It's happening everywhere, coincidently, at a time when our ruling lords and masters have borrowed themselves broke. Times, Sunday Times
The reactionary ruling clique was torn by internal strife.
The gulf between the ruling elite and the masses became obscene.
The judge cited a 1956 Supreme Court ruling in her decision.
It is not my intention to review the relevant jurisprudence in this ruling.
Islam has a detailed legal process called ijtihad for deriving new Islamic rulings. Khilafah.com - Building a global movement for Khilafah
Those leaderships conduct us to the border of the precipice. The only way to avoid it is to wipe out the national borders, the imperialist ruling and the capitalist private property.
What are the possible implications of the Court of Appeal ruling? Times, Sunday Times
This ruling doesn't seem to be consistent with what is already allowed to be printed and sold.
It was made on a piece of paper torn out of an old account book and the ruling and heading I did with pokeberries, according to the "Form" provided by the adjutant of the regiment. One of Jackson's foot cavalry : his experience and what he saw during the war 1861-1865, including a history of "F Company," Richmond, Va., 21st Regiment Virginia Infantry, Second Brigade, Jackson's Division, Second Corps, A. N. Va.,
The ruling oligarchic clique in Moscow headed by Putin, actually, has been quite hostile to Byelorussia and Lukashenko. Belarus: That's enough democracy | Editorial
The magistrates committed her to Preston Crown Court for sentence after ruling their powers of punishment were insufficient.
It is the Marxist agenda that has seeped into our ruling caste - especially the Police and judiciary - that is whoilly responsible for what Fraser politely calls the 'fraying' (read wholesale destruction) of our social fabric. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
The ruling of the Lord Chief Justice that a book written with pure intention and meant to convey useful knowledge might yet be obscene, drew from me a pamphlet entitled, “Is the Bible Indictable?”, in which I showed that the Bible came clearly within the judge's ruling. Autobiographical Sketches
Pro - Thaksin protesters are likely to be further enraged by the Election Commission's ruling.
Interest on 30 per cent solatium will be paid according to the ruling of the court.
Bossi brought down Berlusconi's first government by leaving the ruling coalition.
The clauses also provide for jail terms for violations of labor rulings.
The ruling gives authoritarian regimes around the world a new bludgeon to use against news organizations as well as their own populations trying to get access to media beyond the control of state censors.
All three chose to veil their implied criticism of the judge's ruling beneath a denunciation of the media that reported it. Times, Sunday Times
Angola's ruling party was due to get down to brass tacks today with a debate on the party's record.
The ruling party will contest 158 seats in Algeria's elections.
The two rulings have blown holes in that. Times, Sunday Times
Fourth, the court's ruling underscores the importance of verbal representations made by church schools regarding the services they provide. Christianity Today
But he ‘stepped back from the brink of radical or irrevocable acts against members of his ruling circle’.
This ruling applies to the ranks of Inspector and below.
The step sought by Virginia, known as certiorari before judgment, is one the court has taken only a handful of times, including its 1974 decision ordering President Richard Nixon to turn over Oval Office tape recordings and its 1952 ruling blocking President Harry S Truman from seizing the nation's steel mills. Chron.com Chronicle
The hopes of the people have been dashed too many times to believe that they can rid the country of the ruling clique with the ballot.
So the argument over free trade versus protectionism was debated in parliament by people directly representing different wings of the ruling class.
SHAPIRO: You know, you mentioned that Kim Jong Il's older son was sort of shut out of the power structure and is now sometimes spotted in casinos in Macau, and I have to wonder whether that's a better fate than ruling North Korea. Little Known About North's Korea's Heir Apparent
And in ruling her ranks it was _her_ rule to _rule_; The Book of Joyous Children
Ruling the country as his own personal fiefdom, he has imposed placemen in key positions of power and dictated policy. Times, Sunday Times
An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
The Hmong are the mountain peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Southern China. treated as savages by the ruling peoples of Vietnam, they were staunch allies of the US during the Vietnam war and after the fall of South Vietnam in 75, the US accepted a fair number as refugees. "We have to be very careful. We want professors to speak with what they see as their truths."
He was in disfavour with the ruling party.
Could we stop dignifying its vengeance and violence as ‘rulings’?
Justice Sotomayor's famous declaration — that a "wise Latina" will often come to a better judicial ruling than a white male — implies an ethnic-and-gender "essentialist" philosophy that is repugnant to Justice Kennedy's core individualism. The Decider
You know, if an umpire were ruling on this one, he'd call it foul for foul-mouthed.
Kentucky last had a bipartisan ruling coalition in 1920.
The ruling stipulated that only diplomats and servicemen posted abroad will be allowed to vote, by mail.
Most people continue to make the mistake that the Democrats are an opposition party when in fact they are best understood as junior partners in a ruling coalition.
An annulment is a Church ruling that the marriage was invalid.
To recognize this political fact and state it bluntly in no way minimizes the criminal repression carried out by the ruling elite in Russia against the Chechen people.
Indeed, whatever stands in dispute and needs a ruling the pointer of the balance will determine.
On appeal, the Supreme Court affirmed the Lower Court's ruling, but not without some controversy.
With the advent of the government's new programme, the ruling elite is now orientating itself towards just such a confrontation.
The radical group in the ruling party is becoming increasingly isolated.
Cost of take-over battles to soar A RECENT ruling by Customs and Excise could add millions to the costs of company takeovers.
I want to raise two questions, not to criticise a ruling you have made but to seek your further consideration on both counts.
This ruling applies to the ranks of Inspector and below.
Egypt's ruling military council denies "rumours of army forces using tear-gas cannisters against protesters," in communiqué no.83 issued on the SCAF's official Facebook page. Egypt protesters in standoff with military rulers - Wednesday 23 November
The government now is looking at unprecedented public-sector layoffs and cuts in civil-service perks, steps that could reshape Greek political culture by upending decades of cozy ties between the ruling Socialist party and a core constituency. Greek Officials Scramble to Find More Cuts
Ruling parties have lost ground in national and local elections.
The sport's ruling body gave him dispensation to compete in national competitions.
Their ruling passion is that of carnal love.
A party official said it would obey the ruling, but was considering a court appeal.
He had said before how he thought that he would have been good ruling in troubled times.
The plan will be presented by the county authority's ruling Conservative group to a meeting of the governing executive on Tuesday.
The appeal court upheld the High Court judge's ruling that the benefits of vaccination outweighed the risks.
It is baffling why the Department of Defense has made this ruling.
States and ruling orders continually seek to manipulate religion to political advantage.
Author, Alan Baxter, didn't go on his own diatribe, but he clued me in to an Obscenity Ruling by The Onion. Archive 2010-05-01
Ruling and opposition party legislative caucuses finally reached a consensus on Wednesday to halve the number of legislative seats.
Rather than email me to say mazel tov, it would be much more meaningful if you would join me tonight . . . to demonstrate your opposition to the anti-marriage ruling. My hometown
In 1533, the first Henrician Act of Succession had reaffirmed the ruling of the Church of England that she was illegitimate. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
It would also strengthen the powers of police to protect women from coercion and intimidation and underline that of courts to set aside discriminatory rulings. Times, Sunday Times
Forty - second article at the arbitral tribunal to make a ruling before the mediation should be first.
When the public prosecutor appealed against that ruling, Pasko lodged a complaint in an attempt to clear his name.
The guidance comes after recent court rulings exposed failings in the system that had eroded public trust. Times, Sunday Times
The book could not have come at a worse time for Sarkozy, whose ruling right-of-centre UMP party is facing an onslaught by the extreme-right Front National in cantonal elections today. Book on Nicolas Sarkozy reveals what he really thinks about his ministers
A lower court affirmed the ruling last week, prompting an appeal by the companies involved. Times, Sunday Times
People are defined as illiterate when they do not conform to a set of cultural criteria defined by the ruling elite of a particular society.
The national question is not a problem for the Left; it is a problem for the British ruling class.
The court's ruling should be of interest to every citizen of Texas.
It is unclear whether MPs will push the deal through in defiance of the court ruling. Times, Sunday Times
The process was shaped by military competition between the Eastern and Western ruling classes.
Court of Appeals judges considered the bias issue and also raised concerns about technical aspects of Jackson's ruling.
The results, which must be disturbing to the various ruling elites, are all the more striking.
Supreme Court Monday declined to review a ruling that reinstated an antitrust lawsuit alleging major record labels conspired to fix prices and terms under which music would be sold over the Internet. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
I would point to Francis Fukuyama's insightful "The End of History", which was only been flawed by assuming that the US was a real democracy --- and not a very subtle, guileful ruling-elite 'corporate financial Empire' disguising itself behind the facade of this two-party 'Vichy' sham of democracy. Coming Soon-- Riots in America?
Yet, in the absence of the traditional ruling magnates to supervise border rule and defence, the region's precarious peace dissolved into feuds and reiving.
There you have a whole phalanx of state-owned media, which are mainly ‘self-governing’ in the sense that they have their own boards and bosses, and it is only really State House which they have to worry about overruling them.
The ruling dashes Ms. Kissel's chances of securing a release through a retrial after Hong Kong's highest court early last year threw out her 2005 murder conviction, citing procedural flaws in what became widely known as the "milkshake murder" trial. Hong Kong Jury Finds American Expatriate Nancy Kissel Guilty of Murder
The ruling two-party coalition has a mandate until 2012, but its wafer-thin parliamentary majority is crumbling. Few believe it can stumble on much longer.
As expected, the Cuban cigar industry was not happy with the ruling.
Many a tribe and ruling house has survived by intermarrying with its rivals,(Sentence dictionary) rather than waging war on them.
Your ruling planet Mercury changes direction and lines up new experiences. The Sun
The ruling means that no one has been found guilty for the deaths of more than 800 people during the uprising. Times, Sunday Times
A revolt against a ruling liberal political class which has caused untold havoc at home and mayhem and murder abroad. The Sun
The vote has turned into one of confidence in Italy's ruling class. Times, Sunday Times
Similar rulings were made against the German prohibition on foreign beers containing additives in 1987 and against the Italian prohibition on the sale of foreign pasta products not made from durum wheat in 1988.
The International Court of Justice, which is the court that determines what the law is in such cases, made a ruling which is clear and unambiguous. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Goodwin tried to have the court ruling over-turned.
Their only tangible success so far has been to overturn a previous ruling and have the inquests heard by a proper jury. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Dixit is also concerned about the slowing down of economic reforms in the country, owing to inner contradictions within the ruling coalition.
A lower court affirmed the ruling last week, prompting an appeal by the companies involved. Times, Sunday Times
All they can achieve, they assume, is the preservation of a clean trial record for appeal, and the reversal of the trial court ruling.
Amateur boxing's ruling body said the Cuban protest was rejected because there was no evidence of serious irregularity.
Mr Kim's ruling Democratic Liberal Party had easy wins in three by-elections.
Scientology Dutch defeat p2p news/p2pnet: - The Dutch Supreme Court will provide a ruling on the Church of Scientology — that is, if the court follows the advice [Dutch - PDF] of its independent counsel, advocaat-generaal Verkade, which is more than likely. Scientology Dutch defeat
The ruling Kuomintang is desperately in need of reform, including rooting out blatant corruption and severing gangland ties.
Jong-un, the youngest son and successor to the ruling dynasty started by his grandfather, was described as the "eternally immovable mental mainstay of the Korean people" by KCNA. Reuters: Top News
That ruling comes as a blow to environmentalists.
the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling
Big plans and bold choices should work out brilliantly now that ruling planet Mars is in your sign. The Sun
Langdale described the court ruling as a travesty of justice.
Class origins are less important than the objective function of serving the interests of the ruling class.
Candidates from the ruling Liberal Democratic party won the most seats in last month's Tokyo metropolitan assembly elections.
The ruling said Ireland had failed ‘over a protracted period of time’ to establish an adequate and fully operational licensing system for waste disposal.
But her ruling was overturned by a judge. The Sun
Considering the reports submitted by the Collector of Cuttack and the Secretary of State Election Commission ruling out anomalies in the delimitation exercise, the court delivered judgement. posted by Neel @ 10: 14 AM HC dismisses petitions over delimitation
The average French consitutional court conseil constitutionnel ruling, for example, is about 1½ pages long. The Volokh Conspiracy » From the Volokh Archives: Touchy Canadians
The immigration case was not one of them, so the lower court ruling stands.
An announcement by the ruling Workers' Party of Korea says it hopes to make "great changes" as it marks its 65th anniversary this year.
The court ruling means other gipsies may also argue that their nomadic lifestyles have been restricted in future planning cases.
Now the ruling, which could open the way for new prosecutions, has thrown the issue into chaos.
But, with the metronome quality of these rulings, one or the other is always out of favor.
For the present it must suffice to observe that the evidences of an overruling dogmatic purpose are generally much more conspicuous in the third synoptist than in the first; and that the very loose manner in which this writer has handled his materials in the "Acts" is not calculated to inspire us with confidence in the historical accuracy of his gospel. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
When word came down of a judge's ruling that gays could serve openly in the military, an Air Force officer received joyous congratulations from a comrade. Pentagon To Gay Troops: Stay Silent Or Trouble Could Find You
The Scottish Executive is cracking up under the strain of misruling the country.
The ruling Ottoman elite added the Turkish Hospital in 1895 and a hammam (Turkish bath house) and fortress in the early twentieth century.
In totally prohibiting a district court judge from exercising any discretion to facilitate exercise of the constitutional rights of public access by means of Internet or other electronic broadcasting of open-court sessions in civil cases, does the ruling below impermissibly restrict the judicial power vested in federal district court judges by the Constitution and creational statutes? RIAA v Tenenbaum webcasting: redux?
The last thing Leeds need right now is podgy referees overruling linesmen and giving seriously dodgy goals against them.
There is some possibility under California law of the judge overruling the jury, but I think under the Supreme Court decision that just happened this summer, the end of the term in June, that wouldn't be upheld as constitutional.
Most of the protesters were government workers or from unions linked to the ruling party. Times, Sunday Times
Read the extract on p. 16 concerning the ruling class.
A ruling class clearly existed.
The ruling was made after heavy overnight rain had made the course extremely wet, with the forecast predicting further downpours. Times, Sunday Times
It also precipitated a 1976 Supreme Court ruling equating money with free speech, bringing a whole new twist to the notion of centralized power in the hands of the moneyed. Election Reform: Grow it from the grassroots
A serious split in the ruling coalition appeared soon after the election.
As democracy is, at present, the only permissible political rhetoric, the ruling class duly speaks its language.
While the ruling may be a step forward for detainee rights in Maricopa County jails, it's hardly progress for Arizona as a whole. The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Why Detention Reform is Desperately Needed
The ensuing and recurrent financial crises led to constant infighting within the ruling clique.
But perhaps the biggest change will be that the new mace will no longer lie on a table with its head directed at the ruling party.
A revolt against a ruling liberal political class which has caused untold havoc at home and mayhem and murder abroad. The Sun
The Supreme Court has affirmed the lower court's ruling.
Workers wanting to claim compensation for injury to their feelings had their hopes dashed yesterday after a ruling by the highest court in the land.
National liberation movements rarely survive unscathed once they have taken over as the ruling political party. Times, Sunday Times
It was a lengthy document of some 68 pages with 9 annexes comprising the preliminary ruling and other documentation.
The performance of an ABI is important for ruling out significant arterial occlusive disease before applying compression.
I have not found firm rulings on these matters, and the imprecision is, I think, deliberate.
It's still not clear to what extent this criticism is originating from within the ruling party.
In that ruling, the justices said spies and saboteurs were violators of the law of war and so were not entitled to prisoner-of-war protections.
Those words [_especially they who labor in the word and doctrine_] are added to the former explanatively, to teach us who they are that rule well, viz. _they who labor much in the word and doctrine_, and not to distinguish them that labor in the word, from elders ruling well; as if Paul had said, "Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, greatly laboring in the word," &c. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
The ruling requires that driftnet fishing be reduced by half by July this year, and cease altogether by December.
The judge ruled that the documents were admissible, and this appeal is basically against that ruling.
The circuit judges' ruling left things as they are for the moment.
The source of ruling-class opposition was a distinct sector of the class, the landed gentry, and was perfectly rational in basis.
In other respects also, purple partakes of the properties of blue, which is its archeus, or ruling colour; hence it is to the eye a retiring colour, that reflects light little, and loses rapidly in power in a declining light, and according to the distance at which it is viewed. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
Each leaf or folio has two pages and these were normally marked out for the text and any illumination by a process of pricking and ruling using a variety of instruments.
Critical rulings by ombudsmen are dismissed by ministers as rubbish. Times, Sunday Times
There are no pus cells in the stool, thereby ruling out a bacterial diarrhea like shigella dysentery.
Peter Wiggin, the eldest, is a cruel and sadistic boy with grandiose but entirely plausible ideas of ruling the world. Ender’s Game: Lost Childhood « A Working Title
The principal goal of Republican conservatives is to reverse the Roe v Wade ruling.
And this ruler is distinguished from him that exhorteth, and him that teacheth, with whose special work, as such, he hath nothing to do; even as they are distinguished from those who give and show mercy; that is, there is an elder by office in the Church, whose work and duty it is to _rule_, not to exhort or teach ministerially, which is our ruling elder. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
The ruling legislators said the Cabinet might as well be disbanded since it is not operating as a team.
The House of Lords will make a final ruling on the case next week.
The radical group in the ruling party is becoming increasingly isolated.
The ruling, primarily intended as a safety measure, could lead to a widespread boycott by disabled entrants.
They argued that the ruling party could not be trusted to oversee its own removal from power.
The ruling coalition's campaign ignores criticisms and presents the image of a party destined to govern.
Despite strong opposition, the ruling party carried the day.
In the same ruling, it got caned with a $7.12 million fine.
The judge's ruling has struck a blow for racial equality.
He also notes changes in the attitude and policies of ruling classes and in the zeal with which religious disputes were pursued. The Times Literary Supplement
Preliminary rulings are important as a method of indirect challenge to the legality of Community action.

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