it was the clerks who caused the mischief and who made him say that the ruling passion of their race was covetousness and that in dealing with them he never knew whether he had to do with a Frenchman or with a devil.

It served as the uniform of the Almoravids, and under their rule, sumptuary laws forbade anybody else from wearing the veil, thereby making it the distinctive dress of the ruling class ( the later Almohads made a point of mocking the Almoravid veil as symbolic of effeminacy and decadence.

Following this ruling, Alford petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which upheld the initial ruling, and subsequently to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which ruled that Alford's plea was not voluntary, because it was made under fear of the death penalty.

" In the 1999 South Carolina Supreme Court case State v. Gaines, the Court held that Alford guilty pleas were to be held valid in the absence of a specific on-the-record ruling that the pleas were voluntary – provided that the sentencing judge acted appropriately in accordance with the rules for acceptance of a plea made voluntarily by the defendant.

One of the errors had originally been ruled a hit, but the Cleveland third baseman sent a note to the press box after the eighth inning, saying he had made an error, and the ruling was changed.

Her sympathetic renderings of American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era.

Most of England's traditional ruling classes regarded the Rump as an illegal government made up of regicides and upstarts.

Later the Universal House of Justice, initially elected in 1963, made a ruling on the subject that it was not possible for another Guardian to be appointed.

The government filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit on November 23, but made no attempt to have the trial court's ruling stayed pending the outcome.

The Catholic Church has not made a formal ruling on the existence of extraterrestrials.

Similarly, his children's names made them like walking prophecies of the fall of the ruling dynasty and the severed covenant with God – much like the prophet Isaiah a generation later.

Prawer argued further that the kingdom was an early attempt at colonization, in which the crusaders were a small ruling class, who were dependent on the native population for survival but made no attempt to integrate with them.

The lines were then made by ruling between the prick marks ... The process of entering ruled lines on the page to serve as a guide for entering text.

However the non-Hasidic Haredi community of Jerusalem follows the custom that machine-made matzah may be used, with preference to the use of shmurah flour, in accordance with the ruling of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld, who actually ruled that machine-made matzah may be preferable to hand made in some cases.

On 25 May 2009, the Constitutional Court, made up of appointed judges, released a ruling that any referendum to create a new constitution would be unconstitutional, and further would be a violation of the oath the president had taken on the Koran ( a serious matter in this overwhelmingly Muslim country ).

On June 27, 1986, the Court made the following ruling:

In 1942 our entire investment in Opel amounted to about $ 35 million, and under a ruling which the Treasury Department had made concerning assets in enemy hands, we were allowed to write off the investment against current taxable income.

For example, a district court in the United States First Circuit could consider a ruling made by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as persuasive authority.

After this case, once the Lords had given a ruling on a point of law, the matter was closed unless and until Parliament made a change by statute.

Hildebert also complained to Honorius about the constant appeals to Rome whenever he made a ruling.

An advisor to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the ruling moderate Islamist AK Parti, Ali Yüksel, is reportedly polygamous and has made public his intention to take a fourth wife which caused outrage from the Turkish media and also from the AK Parti.

The imperial representative made a ruling in favour of the abbey, and that the lands were to be restored to the monastery.

In WWE, a referee must see the violation with his own eyes to rule that the match end in a disqualification ( simply watching the video tape is not usually enough ) and the referee's ruling is almost always final, although dusty finishes ( named after, and made famous by, Dusty Rhodes ) will often result in the referee's decision being overturned.

A 1984 ruling said " the land over which a public right of way exists is known as a highway ; and although most highways have been made up into roads, and most easements of way exist over footpaths, the presence or absence of a made road has nothing to do with the distinction.

Arcadius showed little interest in ruling, leaving most of the actual power to his Praetorian Prefect Rufinus.

The national media are largely controlled by the government and by political parties in the Barisan Nasional / National Front ruling coalition and the opposition has little access to the media.

When Henry first came to the throne, he had very little interest in actually ruling ; rather, he preferred to indulge in luxuries and to partake in sports.

Bolesław I, claiming the Ducal throne for himself, invaded Bohemia in 1003 and took Prague without any serious opposition, ruling as Boleslav IV for a little over a year.

The poll reveals relatively little difference of opinion on the issue among Democrats ( 85 percent opposed to the ruling ), Republicans ( 76 percent ) and independents ( 81 percent ).

Regardless of whether it was exaggerated anti-Portuguese / anti -" Colonial " propaganda, a dominant tendency in Mozambique, or a mix of both, these movements claimed that since policies and development plans were primarily designed by the ruling authorities for the benefit of the Mozambican ethnic Portuguese population, little attention was paid to local tribal integration and the development of its native communities.

[...] I must not however conceal from Your Excellency, that the Gentry, well disposed, and heartily desirous as they are, to serve the Crown, and to serve it with Zeal, when formed into regular Corps, do not relish commanding a bare Militia, they never were used to that Service under the French Government, ( and perhaps for good Reasons ) besides the sudden Dismission of the Canadian Regiment raised in 1764, without Gratuity or Recompence to Offices, who engaged in our Service almost immediately after the Cession of the Country, of taking any Notice of them since, tho ' they all expected half pay, is still uppermost in their Thoughts, and not likely to encourage their engaging a second Time in the same Way ; as to the Habitants or Peasantry, ever since the Civil Authority has been introduced into the Province, the Government of it has hung so loose, and retained so little Power, they have in a Manner emancipated themselves, and it will require Time, and discreet Management likewise, to recall them to their ancient Habits of Obedience and Discipline ; considering all the new Ideas they have been acquiring for these ten years past, can it be thought they will be pleased at being suddenly, and without Preparation embodied into a Militia, and marched from their Families, Lands, and Habitations to remote Provinces, and all the Horrors of War, which they have already experienced ; It would give appearance of Truth to the Language of our Sons of Sedition, at this very Moment busily employed instilling into their Minds, that the Act was passed merely to serve the present Purposes of Government, and in the full Intention of ruling over them with all the Despotism of their ancient Masters.

While these words all share that principal meaning, they differ a little in their additional meanings, so that gynecocracy also means ' women's social supremacy ', gynaecocracy also means ' government by one woman ', ' female dominance ', and, derogatorily, ' petticoat government ', and gynocracy also means ' women as the ruling class '.

Ingsoc ’ s propaganda proclaims its egalitarianism, yet the Proles and ( some ) members of the Outer Party are hideously exploited and live in poverty, while the ruling élite, the Inner Party, work little and live well and comfortably ; yet food and consumer goods are more scarce and expensive than under capitalism.

He grew up with little expectation of ruling.

There is little to no reference to Hyperion during the Titanomachy, the epic in which the Olympians battle the ruling Titans, or the Gigantomachy, in which Gaia attempts to avenge the Titans by enlisting the aid of the giants ( Γίγαντες ) that were imprisoned in Tartarus to facilitate the overthrow of the Olympians.

The cars were actually made by Fend's own company in the Messerschmitt works at Regensburg and Willy Messerschmitt had very little to do with the vehicles other than ruling that they carried his name.

The community acted as the interface between ruling colonial government-Portuguese from Portugal who knew little about Chinese-and the Chinese majority ( 95 % of population ) who knew equally little about the Portuguese.

The ruling had little immediate effect as the EU had already lifted its moratorium on GM crops in 2004.

Eärnil's son and heir Eärnur did not take a wife and had little interest in ruling.

The ruling party, NPN, rigged him out of the senate seat, which was purportedly lost to a relatively little known state commissioner in then Governor Jim Nwobodo's cabinet called Dr. Edwin Onwudiwe.

Since becoming leader, MacKay and the party's ruling council had done little to facilitate election readiness and preparation which may have been an early signal of MacKay's intentions to not run a full slate of 308 PC candidates in the expected election.

He railed against “ a little ruling clique ” of “ downtown interests ” and promised to revise the city charter, which had become unwieldy with the city's growth from a quiet West Coast town to the third largest metropolis in the country.

Therefore, in anti-revisionist circles, there is very little talk of class conflict in the Soviet Union before 1956, except when talking about specific contexts such as the Russian Civil War ( when some agents of the former feudal ruling class tried to retake state power from the Bolsheviks ) and World War II ( fought principally between communists and fascists, representing the interests of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie respectively ).

Jenco " was treated little better than a caged animal " said Lamberth in his ruling, which laid the blame upon the Iranian government.

Bolesław claimed the ducal throne for himself, invaded Bohemia in 1003 and took Prague without any serious opposition, ruling as Boleslaus IV for a little over a year.

Tar-Vanimeldë had little interest in ruling, and Herucalmo served as her regent.

Attalus III had little interest in ruling Pergamon, devoting his time to studying medicine, botany, gardening, and other pursuits.