The Persian Emperor Cambyses II upon conquering Ancient Egypt sent ambassadors to Macrobia bringing luxury gifts for the Macrobian king to entice his submission, but instead the Macrobian ruler replied with a challenge for the Persian ruler in the form of an unstrung bow, that if the Persians could manage to string, they would have the right to invade his country, but until then they should thank the gods that the Macrobians never decided to invade their empire.

When Mary asked him whether subjects had a right to resist their ruler, he replied that if monarchs exceeded their lawful limits, they might be resisted, even by force.

Townspeople in Noveleta ( a Magdiwang town ) acclaimed Bonifacio as the ruler of the Philippines, to the chagrin of the Magdalo leaders ( Bonifacio replied: " long live Philippine Liberty !").

These elements, which formed the bulk of the population, were not averse to supporting a strong ruler who would protect them against the Arab aristocracy.

The vision in first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus ( 9: 1 ) concerning seventy weeks, or seventy " sevens ", apportioned for the history of the Israelites and of Jerusalem ( 9: 24 ) This consists of a meditation on the prediction in Jeremiah that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years, a lengthy prayer by Daniel in which he pleads for God to restore Jerusalem and its temple, and an angelic explanation which focuses on a longer time period-" seventy sevens "-and a future restoration and destruction of city and temple by a coming ruler.

The Ó Briains ' banshee was thought to have the name of Eevul, and was ruler of 25 other banshees who would always be at her attendance.

Stereotypically, eunuchs served as harem " guards ", but they were also valued as high-level political appointees since they could not start a dynasty which would threaten the ruler.

The ruler, alone, would possess the authority to dispense with rewards and punishments.

Confucius was deeply disappointed and resolved to leave Lu and seek better opportunities, yet to leave at once would expose the misbehavior of the Duke and therefore bring public humiliation to the ruler Confucius was serving.

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

Confucius believed that if a ruler were to lead correctly, by action, that orders would be deemed unnecessary in that others will follow the proper actions of their ruler.

She would eventually become the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China for 47 years after her son's death.

Machiavelli argued that, had Cesare been able to win the favor of the new Pope, he would have been a very successful ruler.

Heaven would bless the authority of a just ruler, but would be displeased with a despotic ruler and would withdraw its mandate.

He gathered disciples and searched in vain for a ruler who would adopt his ideals for good governance, but his Analects were written down by followers and have continued to influence education in the East into the modern era.

The unsuccessful " Wonga Coup " was attempted by European and South African mercenaries in 2004 with the goal of replacing Obiang with a puppet ruler who would open the country's mineral wealth to the plotters.

That would make it easier for him to carry out his own plan which was to become ruler of the Kingdom of Valencia.

From his birth, it was clear that one day Frederick Augustus would become the ruler of Saxony.

The repertory system ensured that the comic patter character who performed the role of the sorcerer, John Wellington Wells, would become the ruler of the Queen's navy as Sir Joseph Porter in H. M. S.

The National Assembly, anxious to keep Albania intact, expressed willingness to accept Italian protection and even an Italian prince as a ruler so long as it would mean Albania did not lose territory.

However, in recent times, his pontificate has been re-evaluated, and he is now seen as a man who attempted to stand against the aristocratic domination of the papacy, who promoted a unified Italy under an imperial ruler, only to be murdered for his efforts.

The Undang themselves cannot stand for election and their choice of ruler is limited to a male Muslim who is Malay and also a " lawfully begotten descendant of Raja Radin ibni Raja Lenggang ".

His position was not a dignified one but that of a titular ruler compelled to stand by while others discussed and managed the affairs of his country.

It was where the Umayyad ruler, Marwan II, made his last stand against the Abbasids.

*" If we had listened to the various reports and analyses that had been prepared, many of them from within the U. S. Government, in advance of the war, we would have realized that Iraqis would not stand for an occupation, and certainly not one combining in its authority two countries they deeply distrusted and resented, the United States and Britain ( Iraq's former colonial ruler ).

Isis could not stand by and let this happen because her son was the rightful ruler.

So it was that the armies of the Frankish ruler and warlord Charles Martel, which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732, were still largely infantry armies, the elites riding to battle but dismounting to fight, providing a hard core for the levy of the infantry warbands.

In October 1028, the Emperor's opportunity came as the Lutici district of Pöhlde asked the Emperor to defend against the attacks of Mieszko II, promising support in the fight against the Polish ruler.

In frustration Darius sent a letter to the Scythian ruler Idanthyrsus to fight or surrender.

* King Maroboduus becomes ruler of the Marcomanni and fight against the Roman expansion in Bohemia.

During the ages of the Taifa kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula, Christian knights like El Cid could fight for some Muslim ruler against his Christian or Muslim enemies.

In 578, Chilperic sent an army to fight the Breton ruler Waroch of the Vannetais along the Vilaine.

He takes an army to Brittany to fight against King Claudas of Bourges, a situation resembling that of the historical ruler Riothamus who went to Brittany to fight ravagers based in Bourges.

In 1224, Ribbung who had been in Skule's custody escaped, and Haakon was left to fight him alone as the new ruler of Eastern Norway.

In 2010 a group of Islamic Scholars in Mardin argued that Ibn Taymiyya's fatwa was misprinted into an order to " fight " the ruler who is not applying Islamic law, but rather it means to " treat ".

Ngo Dinh Diem was the ruler of South Vietnam during the initial stages of the war, and though his regime was brutal and he was dictatorial, he was also an anti-communist who was determined to fight the expansion of the North — something that the United States government found sufficiently attractive and ultimately supported him.

Liu Chen attempted to convince his father to fight for the honor of Shu, so Liu Bei ( the founder of Shu ) could look upon him as a redeemed ruler of Shu.

They landed on 9 October on Cyprus from where they sailed to Acre and joined John of Brienne, ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Hugh I of Cyprus, and Prince Bohemund IV of Antioch to fight against the Ayyubids in Syria.

Instead of watching the Muslims stay under a ruler he considered oppressive and ignorant ( Hisham ), he called for many people to follow him and fight.

Later research, though, showed that the political Folkungs were not just descendants of Jarl Folke — instead, they belonged to different Swedish noble families, united by the ambition to fight against a central ruler of Sweden.

After a brutal fight, Hang Tuah emerged as winner and the ruler of Majapahit bestowed upon him Taming Sari ’ s kris or weapon.

The term was originally a pejorative word coined in 1600 by the Scottish royalist and Catholic William Barclay ( 1548 – 1608 ) from the Greek μόναρχος ( monarchos-" monarch, sole ruler ") and μάχομαι (" makhomai "-the verb meaning " to fight "), meaning " those who fight against monarchs.

Set among the fantasy-set lands that surround the high city of Baghdad, the show follows the adventures of a group of extraordinary people, who have banded together to fight against a corrupt ruler of Baghdad.

This is in direct opposition to the classical and Marxist understanding of power who saw power being weaved or wielded through either a sovereign ruler or an executive committee controlled by a ruling elite deliberately producing brutal oppression suppressing a docile working class who refuse to fight back or alternatively basically bland, non-intrusive, neutral, unknown or class-based relationships with basically negative associations, or related to censorship.

Shortly after, Kublai Khan in a succession fight, took over his brother, Möngke, and became the khan, the ruler of the Mongols and even later on became Emperor of China.

He challenged Bathala to a fight to decide who would be the ruler of the universe.

These local units would, as in Aksumite times, form a distinctive unit and fight together, maintaining their local character and were divided into smaller units each headed by a local ruler.

He sent word to the invaders that he wanted to surrender without a fight, as had Lakshmansena, the ruler of neighboring Bengal.