These all culminate in frightening depictions of a powerful king who, like the Babylonian rulers of the court tales, attacks Israel, defiles the temple, and incurs divine judgment.

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.

These changes brought the customary rights of lay rulers such as John over ecclesiastical appointments into question.

These authors were more concerned with preventing the position of Stadholder from evolving into a monarchy, than with attacking their former rulers.

These rulers of Zaragoza, Girona, Barcelona, and Huesca were enemies of Abd ar-Rahman I, and in return for Frankish military aid against him offered their homage and allegiance.

These bishops were powerful landowners as well as ecclesiastical rulers, and they had begun to build new castles and increase the size of their military forces, leading Stephen to suspect that they were about to defect to the Empress Matilda.

These powerful local rulers, having thereby acquired extensive territories and large military retinues, took over administration within their territories and organized it around an increasing number of castles.

These dukes were quite detached from central Frank overlordship, sometimes governing as independent rulers with strong ties to their Vascon kinsmen south of the Pyrenees.

These rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei.

These leaders eventually became the provincial rulers, each with a recognized seat of government.

These were the chief officers of the kings and gradually became the de facto rulers in the name of the kings.

These mercenaries fought the enemies of the Italian city-states, but in the following century they gradually became the rulers of the major polities south of Rome.

These counts at least nominally owed their allegiance to one of these three Norman rulers, but such allegiance was usually weak and often ignored.

These Carian rulers, the Hecatomnids, embraced Hellenic culture.

These new rulers adopted many Egyptian beliefs and customs, but always " interpreted " them in relation to their Greek culture.

These bishops were powerful landowners as well as ecclesiastical rulers, and they had begun to build new castles and increase the size of their military forces, leading Stephen to suspect that they were about to defect to the Empress Matilda.

These rulers were constantly at war over territory, causing fortifications and defenses to be built in border areas.

These dynasties are not found on the Sumerian King List, although one extremely fragmentary supplement has been found in Sumerian, known as the rulers of Lagash.

These countries moved slowly towards primogeniture or their rulers obtained another kingdom, whereby the position of the head of the dynasty became more elevated compared to other dynasts.

These legendary rulers ruled between c. 2850 BC to 2205 BC, before the Xia Dynasty.

These rulers are generally regarded as morally upright and benevolent rulers, examples to be emulated by latter day kings and emperors.

These vassal states were never fully incorporated into the Horde, and Russian rulers early obtained the privilege of collecting the Tatar tax themselves.

These aberrations are avoided if, according to Abbe, the sine condition, sin u ' 1 / sin u1 = sin u ' 2 / sin u2, holds for all rays reproducing the point O.

These wagers are usually avoided by experienced craps players since they pay even money ( 1: 1 ) while a player can make place bets on the 6 or the 8, which pay more ( 7: 6 ).

These metals are therefore relatively volatile, and are avoided in ultra-high vacuum systems.

These were avoided in PM by building an elaborate system of types: a set of elements is of a different type than is each of its elements ( a set is not an element ; one element is not the set ) and one cannot speak of the " set of all sets " and similar constructs, which would lead to paradoxes ( see Russell's paradox ).

These plans will revive the former glory of the city's coasts and attract tourists who avoided swimming in Sidon's sea before.

These early religions may have avoided the question of theodicy by endowing their deities with the same flaws and jealousies that plagued humanity.

These open the next day, but by then the female flowers are no longer receptive and so self-pollination is avoided.

These devices are generally considered safe in themselves, though there can be significant financial and opportunity costs to magnet therapy, especially when treatment or diagnosis are avoided or delayed.

These names are therefore inherently ambiguous, and best avoided, or reserved for the genus collectively.

These were produced in France but avoided the crippling import duties of the 1950s, because the UK was by then a member of the EEC.

These problems can be avoided by limiting the instantaneous bitrate during encoding or ( at the cost of increased latency ) by enlarging the playout buffer.

These should be avoided by people with dry skin, as they also tend to be very drying.

These traditional statistics are mostly avoided through CCPM.

These effects can be avoided by using wiring devices approved for use with aluminum.

These types of misunderstandings and unrealistic expectations are usually avoided through the use of detailed critical path schedules, which specify the work, and timetable to be used, but most importantly, the logical sequence of events which must occur for a project to be completed.

( These new statutes avoided the problems that had led earlier death penalty statutes to be deemed unconstitutional in Furman v.

These areas used to be known as " fever country " and were avoided by mounted travellers, owing to the susceptibility of horses to a form of the disease.

These ' occasion for constitutional confrontation between the two branches ' are likely to be avoided whenever possible.

These laws were extended six times between 1934 and 1951 and in 1951, the legislator avoided mentioning a time limit.

These tribes, long isolated from the Patriarchy, avoided the genetic modifications.

These abilities are occasionally referred to in the novels as ' Talents ,' though, as the term is also used to refer to special abilities related to the One Power, it is avoided for clarity in this article.

These limitations are avoided by using dynamic memory allocation in which memory is more explicitly ( but more flexibly ) managed, typically, by allocating it from the heap, an area of memory structured for this purpose.

These problems are avoided in 12 dimensions if two of these dimensions are timelike, as has been often emphasized by Itzhak Bars.

These motions are generally avoided in traditional counterpoint because they offer the lines so little independence from each other.