A political motive has not been ruled out in the investigations.

Shia ruled Iraq has not been well received in the Sunni Arab world.

For more than a decade, Italy has been ruled through a bipolar political system.

That has been the missing ingredient, not only in Iraq, but also in other countries ruled by despots.

In addition, recent sums ruled upon have been relatively substantial.

This may well have an impact on future regional political coordination, although Mexico s future membership has not been ruled out.

The country has been ruled by President Ismael Omar Guelleh since 1999 and although the government s official line has been largely pro American, the broader populace has increasingly distanced itself from this stance.

A US court recently ruled that veterans rights have been violated.

Oman has been ruled since 1970 by Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who came to power after overthrowing his father, Said Ben Timor.

Dark matter has not yet been directly observed, but scientists believe that it is likely to be real, mostly because the other options have been ruled out.

From Gaza, Hamas, which has ruled the strip since 2007, has fired missiles into Israel.

Like Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in their first few decades of modern growth, China has been ruled by a single party.

Having ruled for four years, the DPP has already redrawn Taiwan's political map.

Adults ruled supreme.

Although Hamas has ruled this out, it has shown no hesitation to use heavy force against its opponents.

Like many countries ruled by authoritarian regimes, Burma has a dual exchange rate system.

Ecuador, for many many years had been ruled by pro US dictators, often relatively brutal.

The area of what is now Mongolia has been ruled by various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, the Rouran, the Turkic Khaganate, and others.

Meles Zenawi, who hosted the summit, has ruled Ethiopia for nearly 20 years and has convinced no one outside his circle of cronies that his country's elections have been free and fair.

The idea of a single report raised in the paper's first point had been ruled out.

Putin has ruled the company with a firm hand as both President and Prime Minister.

But the matter is far from settled Obama has not ruled out a military strike.

Pharaoh ruled the Egyptians

No one who has already ruled on a case may do so a second time. This principle has been affirmed by the European Court of Human Rights (Oberschilde case, judgement of 26 May 1991).

Indeed, the army has ruled Pakistan for a total of 33 years since independence in 1947.

They even ruled out Merkel.

Seven to two, they ruled.

Great men can't be ruled.

You've ruled out my witnesses.

Nothing like this had ever hit the Al Sabah family, which has ruled Kuwait for two centuries.

Your Honour, the court has ruled out any evidence as to scientific knowledge or the Darwinian theory.

Contrary to his campaign promises during his run for a fifth term as President, Mubarak has requested (and his rubber stamp parliament has granted) a two year extension of the Emergency Law by which Egypt has been ruled throughout his presidency.

Each side has since ruled itself, while the Greek Cypriot side has continued to claim that it is the Government of Cyprus .

When dinosaurs still ruled the planet.

He would have ruled the world.

Likewise, the appeal of war has ruled out the prospect of serious negotiations between Israel, Syria, and Lebanon.

I also discovered that their life was not ruled by politics or ideology, but actually was ruled by economics.

Until the recent opening, Myanmar, which gained independence in 1948, had been ruled by a secretive military junta since 1962.

Wael was ruled in absentia last November.

Robbery was ruled out as a motive.

You ruled well in Pella... for yourself.

However, as inadequate records had been maintained for several years, significant losses or misappropriation of assets could not be ruled out.

No one deserves to be ruled so monstrously.

The High Court ruled that it did not.

Gaza is ruled by a completely hostile regime.