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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Adults ruled supreme.

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

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

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

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

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

It has been five months now that the country has been divided into two parts the South is ruled by a fragile government while the North, which includes the historic cities of Timbuktu and Gao, is the theater of the Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's (AQIM) expansion in the Sahel.

They even ruled out Merkel.

He mentions the inhabitants of the region as having been entirely Kurds, who were defended themselves from the Sultan and ruled their area.

Wael was ruled in absentia last November.

The Kremlin has probably lost its chance to remove Saakashvili by overt force, although sinister, more stealthy means cannot 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.

China has changed a great deal in the last century, but it has remained the same in one respect it is still ruled by a religious concept of politics.

GAZA CITY Hamas, the militant political movement that has ruled Gaza since 2007, has emerged from the latest round of fighting with Israel with its regional status significantly enhanced.

At the moment, only the army which has effectively ruled the country since 1952 and the Muslim Brotherhood, which has the widest social networks, appear to be serious players.

Dozens of Gazans have been killed in another round of Israeli airstrikes in the war battered strip after peace negotiations between Israel and Hamas, a group that has ruled Gaza since 2007 under a seven year blockade from Israel, broke down.

Should the report that was presented today be taken as the objective state of affairs in the field, it would serve as the basis for the very automatic action that has so far been resolutely ruled out as a possibility.

Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2006, may serve as an example of what the Brotherhood wants undivided power, including over the military.

Second, the subject for negotiations is unclear, because Putin has ruled out Chechen independence, and surrender by the separatists is just as unlikely.

Mayawati, an untouchable woman, has ruled India s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, as Chief Minister three times, and now enjoys a secure majority.

There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.

The Administrative Court in Cairo ruled in his favor.

The Ottomans ruled Greece until the early 19th century.

Others apparently a minority have ruled to the contrary.