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rul·ing

(ro͞o′lĭng)

adj.

1. Exercising control or authority: the ruling junta; ruling circles of the government.

2. Predominant: the ruling principle.

1. The act of governing or controlling.

2. An authoritative or official decision: a court ruling.

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ruling

(ˈruːlɪŋ)

1. a decision of someone in authority, such as a judge

2. one or more parallel ruled lines

adj

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) controlling or exercising authority: the ruling classes.

4. prevalent or predominant

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rul•ing

(ˈru lɪŋ)

n.

1. an authoritative decision, as one by a judge on a debated point of law.

2. the act of drawing straight lines with a ruler.

3. ruled lines.

adj.

4. governing or dominating.

5. controlling; predominating: the ruling factor.

6. prevalent.

[1175–1225]

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Noun	1.	ruling - the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself) opinion judicial decision, judgment, judgement - (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it fatwa - a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
Adj.	1.	ruling - exercising power or authority regnant, reigning powerful - having great power or force or potency or effect; "the most powerful government in western Europe"; "his powerful arms"; "a powerful bomb"; "the horse's powerful kick"; "powerful drugs"; "a powerful argument"

ruling

adjective

1. governing, upper, reigning, controlling, leading, commanding, dominant, regnant the domination of the ruling class

2. predominant, dominant, prevailing, preponderant, chief, main, current, supreme, principal, prevalent, pre-eminent, regnant a ruling passion for liberty and equality
predominant least, minor, secondary, subsidiary, subordinate, inferior, unimportant, auxiliary

noun

1. decision, finding, resolution, verdict, judgment, decree, adjudication, pronouncement He tried to have the court ruling overturned.

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ruling

adjective

1. Exercising controlling power or influence:

commanding, controlling, dominant, dominating, dominative, governing, paramount, preponderant, regnant, reigning.

2. Having preeminent significance:

ascendant, dominant, predominant, prepotent, prevailing, regnant, supreme.

noun

An authoritative or official decision, especially one made by a court:

decree, determination, edict, judgment, pronouncement.

Translations

حاكِمقَرار، حُكْم

nálezrozhodnutívládnoucí

Entscheidung herrschend

gobernante dirigente en el poder fallo reinante

arrêt au pouvoir commandement décision déclaration

stjórnandi, ráîandiúrskurîur

dominante dirigente

herskende

vládnuci

hükümidare edenyargıyöneten

统治的裁定

ruling

[ˈruːlɪŋ]

A. ADJ

1. (= governing) [class, body] → dirigente; [party] → en el poder; [monarch] → reinante
ruling planet (Astrol) → planeta m dominante

2. (= predominant) [passion, factor] → dominante

3. (Fin) [price] → que rige, vigente

B. N (Jur) → fallo m, resolución f (Admin, Sport) → decisión f
to give a ruling on a dispute → fallar en una disputa

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ruling

[ˈruːlɪŋ]

adj

[party] → au pouvoir

[class] → dirigeant(e)

(LAW) → décision fruling body n → organe m directeur

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

ruling

adj

(= in power) body, elite → herrschend; the ruling class → die herrschende Klasse; the ruling party → die Regierungspartei

(= determining) factor → ausschlaggebend; passion → vorherrschend; (= prevalent) → (vor)herrschend; (Fin, St Ex) prices → notiert; ruling principle → leitendes Prinzip, Leitprinzip nt

n (Admin, Jur) → Entscheidung f; to get a ruling → einen Bescheid erhalten; to give a ruling → eine Entscheidung fällen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

ruling

[ˈruːlɪŋ]

1. adj (passion, idea) → grande, dominante; (party) → al potere
the ruling classes → la classe dirigente

2. n (Law) → decisione f

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rule

(ruːl) noun

1. government. under foreign rule.

2. a regulation or order. school rules.

3. what usually happens or is done; a general principle. He is an exception to the rule that fat people are usually happy.

4. a general standard that guides one's actions. I make it a rule never to be late for appointments.

5. a marked strip of wood, metal etc for measuring. He measured the windows with a rule.

verb

1. to govern. The king ruled (the people) wisely.

2. to decide officially. The judge ruled that the witness should be heard.

3. to draw (a straight line). He ruled a line across the page.

ruled adjective

having straight lines drawn across. ruled paper.

ˈruler noun

1. a person who governs. the ruler of the state.

2. a long narrow piece of wood, plastic etc for drawing straight lines. I can't draw straight lines without a ruler.

ˈruling adjective

governing. the ruling party.

noun

an official decision. The judge gave his ruling.

as a rule

usually. I don't go out in the evening as a rule.

rule off

to draw a line in order to separate. He ruled off the rest of the page.

rule out

to leave out; not to consider. We mustn't rule out the possibility of bad weather.

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He thought he lived in a country where turkeys were the ruling class, and every year they held a feast to manifest their sense of Heaven's goodness in sparing their lives to kill them later.

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When they are, it is easier to hold them, especially when they have not been accustomed to self- government; and to hold them securely it is enough to have destroyed the family of the prince who was ruling them; because the two peoples, preserving in other things the old conditions, and not being unlike in customs, will live quietly together, as one has seen in Brittany, Burgundy, Gascony, and Normandy, which have been bound to France for so long a time: and, although there may be some difference in language, nevertheless the customs are alike, and the people will easily be able to get on amongst themselves.

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But if such an hypothesis be indeed exceptionable, there were still additional considerations which, though not so strictly according with the wildness of his ruling passion, yet were by no means incapable of swaying him.

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It was poetry that inculcated laws and maxims; it was by the harmony of its lines that traditions were handed down at a time when memory had to supply the place of writing; and it was the first language of wisdom and of inspiration." It has been above all the recreation of statesmen and great officials, a means of escape from the weariness of public life and the burden of ruling. A study of the interminable biographies of Chinese poets and men of letters would reveal but a few professional poets, men whose lives were wholly devoted to their art; and of these few the T`ang dynasty can claim nearly all.

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And the government is the ruling power in each state?

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Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke.

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